Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/001627812/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 34 of
34
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "JUVENAL, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. A.D. 600-100); master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born in Aquinum, a rich freedman's son(?) who became a declaimer until middle age, and then between A.D. 100 and 140 used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, attacking the dead rather than the living, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire I); vices of fake philosophers (2); grievances of the worthy poor (3); and of clients (5); a council-meeting under Emperor Dominian (4); vicious women (6); prospects of letters and learning under a new emperor (7); virtue not birth as giving nobility (8); and the vice of homosexuals (9); we have the true object of prayer (10);, paraphrased by Johnson in 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'; spend-thrift and frugal eating (11); a friend's escape from shipwreck; and will-hunters(12); guilty conscience and desire for revenge (13); parents as examples (14); cannibalism in Egypt (15); privileges of soldiers (16, unfinished). PERSIUS, Aulus, Persius Flaccus (A.D. 34-62) of Volaterrae was of equestrian rank; he came to Rome and was trained in 'grammar', rhetoric, and Stoic philosophy. In company with his mother, sister and aunt and enjoying the friendship of Lucan and other famous people, he lived a sober life. He left six Satires only (in hexameters); after a prologue (in scazon metre) we have a Satire on the corruption of literature and morals (1); foolish methods of prayer (2); deliberately wrong living and lack of philosophy (3); the well-born insincere politician, and some of our own weaknesses (4); praise of Cornutus the Stoic; servility of men (5); and a chatty poem addressed to the poet Bassus (6).".
- catalog alternative "Works. English & Latin. 1979".
- catalog contributor b2326585.
- catalog contributor b2326586.
- catalog contributor b2326587.
- catalog contributor b2326588.
- catalog contributor b2326589.
- catalog coverage "Rome Poetry.".
- catalog created "1979.".
- catalog date "1979".
- catalog date "1979.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1979.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "JUVENAL, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. A.D. 600-100); master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born in Aquinum, a rich freedman's son(?) who became a declaimer until middle age, and then between A.D. 100 and 140 used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, attacking the dead rather than the living, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire I); vices of fake philosophers (2); grievances of the worthy poor (3); and of clients (5); a council-meeting under Emperor Dominian (4); vicious women (6); prospects of letters and learning under a new emperor (7); virtue not birth as giving nobility (8); and the vice of homosexuals (9); we have the true object of prayer (10);, paraphrased by Johnson in 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'; spend-thrift and frugal eating (11); a friend's escape from shipwreck; and will-hunters(12); guilty conscience and desire for revenge (13); parents as examples (14); cannibalism in Egypt (15); privileges of soldiers (16, unfinished).".
- catalog description "PERSIUS, Aulus, Persius Flaccus (A.D. 34-62) of Volaterrae was of equestrian rank; he came to Rome and was trained in 'grammar', rhetoric, and Stoic philosophy. In company with his mother, sister and aunt and enjoying the friendship of Lucan and other famous people, he lived a sober life. He left six Satires only (in hexameters); after a prologue (in scazon metre) we have a Satire on the corruption of literature and morals (1); foolish methods of prayer (2); deliberately wrong living and lack of philosophy (3); the well-born insincere politician, and some of our own weaknesses (4); praise of Cornutus the Stoic; servility of men (5); and a chatty poem addressed to the poet Bassus (6).".
- catalog description "Preface. Introduction. Life of Juvenal. Life of Persius. Supposed obscurity of Persius. Persius and Juvenal compared. Satura of Rome. Lucilian satire. Juvenal's satires summarised. Mss of Juvenal. Mss of Persius. Mss of Juvenal as given in Housman's ediction, 1905. Mss of Persius as given in Buecheler's fourth edition revised by F Leo, 1910. Satires of Juvenal. Satires I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI Satires of Persius. Prologue Satires I II III IV V VI Index to Juvenal Index to Persius.".
- catalog extent "lxxxii, 415 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0674991028 (American)0434990914 (British)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Loeb classical library".
- catalog issued "1979".
- catalog issued "1979.".
- catalog language "englat".
- catalog language "lat".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press ; London : W. Heinemann,".
- catalog spatial "Rome Poetry.".
- catalog subject "Juvenal Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "PA6446 .A2 1979".
- catalog subject "Persius Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, Latin Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, Latin.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface. Introduction. Life of Juvenal. Life of Persius. Supposed obscurity of Persius. Persius and Juvenal compared. Satura of Rome. Lucilian satire. Juvenal's satires summarised. Mss of Juvenal. Mss of Persius. Mss of Juvenal as given in Housman's ediction, 1905. Mss of Persius as given in Buecheler's fourth edition revised by F Leo, 1910. Satires of Juvenal. Satires I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI Satires of Persius. Prologue Satires I II III IV V VI Index to Juvenal Index to Persius.".
- catalog title "Juvenal and Persius / with an English translation by G. G. Ramsay.".
- catalog title "Works. English & Latin. 1979".
- catalog type "text".