Juvenal: The Satires (Latin Texts)

About this book

This edition of Juvenals Satires includes the Latin text plus an informative and lively introduction and commentary. It replaces the earlier red Macmillan of E.G. Hardy (1891) and the widely used commentary of J.D. Duff (1898). A new edition was necessary for a number of reasons: much work had been done on the text; the expurgation of earlier editions was no longer felt necessary in a franker age and indeed could lead to misunderstandings about the nature of Juvenals satire; the heavily textual and philological annotation of earlier editions required the attention of a literary critical focus; and for modern students the text needed to make its linguistic guidance and explanation of allusions clearer. Fergusons edition is now the standard student volume on the Satires.