Juvenal has long been known as the poet of indignation, a view based mainly on his early satires. His later work had been relatively overlooked until recently. The present commentary is meant to be a contribution to the reappraisal of the later part of Juvenal's career, a significant trend in the juvenalian scholarship of the last decade.
Among the topics addressed there are the relationship between Juvenal and Martial, his position within the tradition of Roman satire, his relationship with the cultural discourse of Roman moralistic literature, the intertextual links with satire 5...
Juvenal has long been known as the poet of indignation, a view based mainly on his early satires. His later work had been relatively overlooked unt...
