Collection
Status
Available
Description
This is a rhyming-couplet translation of Juvenal's sixteen Satires, written in iambic pentameters. While remaining faithful to the original, it brings the work of the first-century Roman poet to the attention of a contemporary audience. Though subject to the strictures of such a poetic form, it is an accurate rendering while at the same time keeping the mordant and sardonic tone of the original. It is accepted that classical texts need a new inspection every so often and this is an attempt to make Juvenal appeal to a contemporary readership. While it may well find a niche among professional cl
Publication
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1974.
ISBN
0140441948 / 9780140441949
Pages
319
Language
Original language
Latin
Original publication date
0127