Persius

Persius
Author: Shadi Bartsch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 022624184X
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In this short book, Bartsch explores an understudied poet and satirist who lived in Rome during the time of Nero, a man named Persius who was friends with Lucan and a member of Seneca the Younger s entourage. Most of the satirists who lived in Rome then tended to poke fun at the great gravitas of the Stoics, but not Persius. Unique among his literary peers, he, too, wrote satires that lampooned the State and social conventions of the day, yet he wrote from a Stoic point of view, translating, as Bartsch argues, philosophy into poetry and humor."

A Bibliography of Persius

A Bibliography of Persius
Author: Morris Hicky Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Library of Harvard University
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1909
Genre: Persius--Bibliography
ISBN:
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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Author: Susanna Braund
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118301986
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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives