Making Men Ridiculous - Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual

Klappentext Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian! Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his day. This book locates Juvenal's targets among the matrices of birth! wealth! class! gender! and ethnicity and walks through a number of his most arresting vignettes in order to show not only what! but how! he satirizes. Zusammenfassung Barbed and vivid details in Juvenal’s satiric poetry reveal a highly complex critique of the breakdown of traditional Roman values

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Nappa
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780472130665
• ISBN: 978-0-472-13066-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies