Juvenal (0055–0127)
Auteur de Satires
A propos de l'auteur
The 16 Satires (c.110--127) of Juvenal, which contain a vivid picture of contemporary Rome under the Empire, have seldom been equaled as biting diatribes. The satire was the only literary form that the Romans did not copy from the Greeks. Horace merely used it for humorous comment on human folly. afficher plus Juvenal's invectives in powerful hexameters, exact and epigrammatic, were aimed at lax and luxurious society, tyranny (Domitian's), criminal excesses, and the immorality of women. Juvenal was so sparing of autobiographical detail that we know very little of his life. He was desperately poor at one time and may have been an important magistrate at another. His influence was great in the Middle Ages; in the seventeenth century he was well translated by Dryden, and in the eighteenth century he was paraphrased by Johnson in his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes. He inspired in Swift the same savage bitterness. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Œuvres de Juvenal
D. Iunii Iuvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satirae / cum notis Francisci Guieti Andini, Ioannis Peyraredo Aquitani, & al.… (1918) 260 exemplaires
Juvenal : The Satires : Edited with introduction, commentary & bibliography (1998) — Writer — 18 exemplaires
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius, Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes,… (2010) 15 exemplaires
Sàtires, vol. I 4 exemplaires
D. Ivni Ivvenalis Satvrarvm libri V 4 exemplaires
D. Iunii Iuvenalis Saturae XIII - Thirteen Satires Of Juvenal — Auteur — 4 exemplaires
Satire 3 exemplaires
The satires of Juvenal and Persius. With English notes, critical and explanatory, from the best commentators (1873) 3 exemplaires
Juvenalis Satirae XVI 2 exemplaires
Thirteen satires of Juvenal 2 exemplaires
Satiry 2 exemplaires
With An English Translation 2 exemplaires
A. Persii Satyrarum liber I. D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satyrarum lib. V. Sulpiciae Satyra I. Cum veteribus commentariis nunc… 2 exemplaires
Juvenal ; edited with introduction, notes on thirteen satires, and indices, by Henry Parks Wright 2 exemplaires
Satirae P. McC. Paris, 1823, 2 vols. 2 exemplaires
[Works] 2 exemplaires
Juvenal. Uebersetzt und mit Anmerkungen fuer Ungelehrte versehen von D. Carl Friedrich Bardt. Neue verbesserte Auflage. 2 exemplaires
Satire di Giuvenale scelte ridotte in versi italiani ed illustrate da Melchior Cesarotti 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal 1 exemplaire
Le Satire 1 exemplaire
Juvenal’s sixteen satyrs or, A survey of the manners and actions of mankind. With arguments, marginall notes, and… 1 exemplaire
Satiry 1 exemplaire
Selections from the Satires of Juvenal: To which is added the fifth satire of Persius. With notes (Chase and… 1 exemplaire
Juuenalis familiare commentum [by J. Badius Ascensius] Cum Antonij Mancinelli ... explanatione. 1 exemplaire
Iuvenalis satyr 1 exemplaire
D. Jun. Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci Satyrae 1 exemplaire
Satire di D.G. Giovenale 1 exemplaire
De onverdraaglijkheid van Rome 1 exemplaire
Satires de Juvénal. Trad. par M. Dusaulx, ancien commissaire de la gendarmerie, de l’Académie royale des sciences… 1 exemplaire
Iuuenal tr. per G. Summaripa, nouamente impresso 1 exemplaire
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis 1 exemplaire
Satire V 1 exemplaire
Sátires 1 exemplaire
Sátiras 1 exemplaire
Iu. Iuuenalis vna' cum Au. Persio nuper recogniti 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal; Volume II 1 exemplaire
D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae 1 exemplaire
Iuuenalis : Persius 1 exemplaire
Satires. Texte établi et traduit par Pierre de Labriolle,... et François Villeneuve,... 4e… 1 exemplaire
Juvenal, a Dunster 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, Vol II 1 exemplaire
Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus translated and ilustrated, as well with sculpture as notes 1 exemplaire
D. Junii Juvenalis, et Auli Persii Flacci Satyr©Œ: : cum veteris scholiast©Œ, & variorum commentariis. 1 exemplaire
D. Junii Juvenalis Satirae: 1 exemplaire
D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satirarum libri quinque; accedit Sulpiciae Satira; ex recognitione Caroli Friderici Hermanni 1 exemplaire
Scholia in Iuvenalum Vetustoria 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal I 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal, Volume 1 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal, Volume 2 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal II 1 exemplaire
Juvenal Satires I, III, IV 1 exemplaire
Satire X 1 exemplaire
Juvenal Delphini, caret tit (no title) 1 exemplaire
Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires of Juvenal 1 exemplaire
Decii Junii Juvenalis Satirae XIII: Thirteen Satires Of Juvenal (1867) (Latin Edition) (2010) 1 exemplaire
Satyra quinta Juvenalis = Juvenal's fifth satire 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, vol. 1 1 exemplaire
D. Junii Juvenalis, et A. Persii Flacci Satiræ Interpretatione ac notis illustravit Ludovicus Prateus, 1 exemplaire
The Satires of Juvenal Edited for the Use of Schools with Notes, Introduction, and Appendices (1963) 1 exemplaire
Decimi Iunii Iuvenalis Saturae XIII 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, II 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, vol. II i últim 1 exemplaire
L091-Juvenal & Persius Collected Satires 1 exemplaire
Sàtires, vol. II 1 exemplaire
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Römische Satiren : Ennius, Lucilius, Varro, Horaz, Persius, Juvenal, Seneca, Petronius (1962) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Translations from Horace, Juvenal & Montaigne — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Juvenalis
- Nom légal
- Juvenalis, Decimus Junius
Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius - Autres noms
- Giovenale
Giovenale, Decimo Giunio - Date de naissance
- 0055
ca. 0055 - Date de décès
- 0127
ca. 0127 - Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Roman Empire
- Lieu de naissance
- Aquinum, Roam Empire (now Italy)
- Professions
- poet
army officer
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The Satires attack two main themes: the corruption of society in the city of Rome and the follies and brutalities of mankind. In the first Satire, Juvenal declares that vice, crime, and the misuse of wealth have reached such a peak that it is impossible not to write satire, but that, since it is dangerous to attack powerful men in their lifetime, he will take his examples from the dead. He does not maintain this principle, for sometimes he mentions living contemporaries; but it provides a useful insurance policy against retaliation, and it implies that Rome has been evil for many generations. Male homosexuals are derided in two poems: passives in Satire 2, actives and passives together in Satire 9. In the third Satire a friend of Juvenal explains why, abandoning the humiliating life of a dependent, he is determined to live in a quiet country town and leave crowded and uncomfortable Rome, which has been ruined by Greeks and other foreign immigrants; while in the fifth Juvenal mocks another such dependent by describing the calculated insults he must endure on the rare occasions when his patron invites him to dinner. The fourth relates how Domitian summoned his cringing Cabinet to consider an absurdly petty problem: how to cook a turbot too large for any ordinary pan.
Satire 6, more than 600 lines long, is a ruthless denunciation of the folly, arrogance, cruelty, and sexual depravity of Roman women. The seventh Satire depicts the poverty and wretchedness of the Roman intellectuals who cannot find decent rewards for their labours. In the eighth, Juvenal attacks the cult of hereditary nobility. One of his grandest poems is the 10th, which examines the ambitions of mankind—wealth, power, glory, long life, and personal beauty—and shows that they all lead to disappointment or danger: what mankind should pray for is “a sound mind in a sound body, and a brave heart.” In Satire 11, Juvenal invites an old friend to dine quietly but comfortably and discourses on the foolishly extravagant banquets of the rich. The 12th is a quiet little poem distinguishing between true and mercenary friendship. In the 13th Juvenal offers sarcastic consolation to a man who has been defrauded of some money by a friend, telling him that such misdeeds are commonplace; while in the 14th he denounces parents who teach their children avarice. Satire 15 tells of a riot in Egypt during which a man was torn to pieces and eaten: a proof that men are crueler than animals. In the 16th Juvenal announces that he will survey the privileges of professional soldiers, an important theme; but the poem breaks off at line 60 in the middle of a sentence: the rest was lost in ancient times.
Technically, Juvenal’s poetry is very fine. The structure of the individual Satires is—with a few exceptions—clear and forceful. They are full of skillfully expressive effects in which the sound and rhythm mimic and enhance the sense; and they abound in trenchant phrases and memorable epigrams, many known to people who have never heard of Juvenal: “bread and circuses”; “Slow rises worth, by poverty oppressed”; “Who will guard the guards themselves?”; “the itch for writing”; “The greatest reverence is due to a child.” Vivid, often cruelly frank, remarks appear on almost every page: after describing a rich woman’s efforts to preserve her complexion with ointments, tonics, donkey’s milk, and poultices, Juvenal asks, “Is that a face, or an ulcer?” He describes striking and disgusting scenes with a clarity that makes them unforgettable: we see the statues of the emperor’s discarded favourite melted down to make kitchenware and chamber pots; the husband closing his disgusted eyes while his drunken wife vomits on the marble floor; the emperor Claudius (poisoned by his consort) “going to heaven” with his head trembling and his lips drooling long trains of saliva; the impotent bridegroom whimpering while a paid substitute consoles his wife. Juvenal is not a poet to be relished by soft hearts.… (plus d'informations)