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The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

The first edition of Book 3 of Juvenal's Satires as a unit by itself contains a detailed introduction, Latin text and translation, and commentary. Poems 7-9 show Juvenal at the height of his powers, directing his biting satire at Roman nobles, the clientela system and literary life in the early 2nd century AD.

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This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level. Juvenal was the last and the greatest of the Roman verse satirists and his poetry gives us an exuberant and outrageou...

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Including Various Particulars Of The Literary And Political History Of Their Times.

Laughter and loathing, sense and sensibility, spleen and ideal - all are here in this collection of witty and at times excoriating poems showing us what life was like in imperial Rome and how we all ought to avoid worshipping the fake gods of money and power. Text, translation, introduction and commentary.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection of poems by Catullus. Poems 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 34, 40, 62, 64 (lines 124-264), 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107 are included as Latin texts with an accompanying commentaries and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract of Catullus' oeuvre, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the texts for the first time while also perfectly encapsulatin...

The British bus industry is known worldwide for producing iconic, innovative and enduring passenger carrying vehicles. "Great British Buses" is a concise history of 50 such buses, selected by the author John Godwin. Take a nostalgic journey - from the Guy Arab first introduced in 1933 through to the Wrightbus "New Routemaster" and StreetDeck, taking in the Bedford OB, Leyland National and many others classic marques en route.

The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanseboo...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines 124-264, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed poems to be read in English for A Level.The poetry of Catullus is some ...

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