Juvenal - A Companion to Persius and Juvenal

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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal

Edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood

This edition first published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Persius and Juvenal/edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to the ancient world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9965-0 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. PersiusCriticism and interpretation. 2. JuvenalCriticism and interpretation. 3. Verse satire, LatinHistory and criticism.

I. Braund, Susanna Morton. II. Osgood, Josiah, 1974

PA6556.C66 2012

871.0109dc23

2012005847

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Jacket image: Joseph-Nol Sylvestre, Le Sac de Rome en 410 par les Vandales, 1890, oil on canvas, 197 130 cm. Muse Paul Valry, Ste. Photo Eric Teissdre.

Jacket design by Workhaus

List of Illustrations

The textual transmission of Juvenal

The opening of Horace's Satires 1.8 from Quinti Horatii Flacci OPERA ,... Philadelphia: W. Poyntell, 1804

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion

Poster for Douglas Sirk's Sleep, My Love

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11

Durs Grnbein liest Juvenal . The German poet reading from Satire 3

Abbreviations

Abbreviations throughout are in accord with those of S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary , 3rd edn., Oxford, 1996 (hereafter OCD 3). The Oxford Latin Dictionary cited throughout as OLD is the edition edited by P.G.W. Glare, Oxford, 1982.