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Satires. Book 1

Satire was a genre of poetry invented by the Romans. When Juvenal began to use it in his writings, he stamped his mark of indignation upon it. Braund places Juvenal within the genre of satire, and illuminates his appropriation of the grand style of declamatory rhetoric and epic poetry

Print Book, English, 1996
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996