Letteratura universale: Contro le donne
Satira VI con testo a fronte - A cura di Franco Bellandi
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Juvenal Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Juvenalis bol rímsky básnik známy svojimi satirami, v ktorých ostro kritizoval rímsku spoločnosť a jej morálny úpadok. Jeho diela, napísané v daktylskom hexametri, sú plné irónie, sarkazmu a ostrých postrehov o ľudskej povahe. Prostredníctvom svojich básní sa Juvenalis zameriava na témy ako chamtivosť, pokrytectvo a absurdita každodenného života, čím ponúka nesmrteľný komentár k večným ľudským slabostiam. Jeho jedinečný štýl a nekompromisný pohľad z neho robia jeden z najvýznamnejších hlasov rímskej literatúry.
Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class, which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, he offers equally savage portraits of decadent aristocrats, women interested only in 'rough trade' like actors and gladiators, and the jumped-up sons of panders and auctioneers. He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with its stern upright forebears. And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious patrons