ellauri109.html on line 712: Dryden translated works by Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, Lucretius, and Theocritus, a task which he found far more satisfying than writing for the stage. In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. The publication of the translation of Virgil was a national event and brought Dryden the sum of £1,400. For example, take lines 789–795 of Book 2 when Aeneas sees and receives a message from the ghost of his wife, Creusa.
ellauri141.html on line 524: This had been a worry in the second century BC, when a bill had been brought in to extend citizenship to Latins and Kipling would have picked up what Juvenal had said about ‘the hungry Greekling’ (Graeculus esuriens) and the Syrian Orontes flowing into the Tiber.
ellauri144.html on line 575: A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry.
ellauri240.html on line 288: Mutta vittu mitä genreä se on? Kriitikot ovat ymmällään. Soellner (1979) argues that the play is equal parts tragedy and satire, but that neither term can adequately be used as an adjective, for it is first and foremost a tragedy, and it does not satirise tragedy; rather, it satirises its subjects in the manner of Juvenalian satire while simultaneously being a tragedy.
ellauri249.html on line 111: By extension, verpus as a masculine adjective or noun, referred to a man whose glans was exposed by erection or by circumcision; thus Juvenal (14.100) has
ellauri249.html on line 121: Juvenal, showing his knack for describing grossly obscene matters without using taboo words, writes as follows in one of his satires (9.43-4):
ellauri249.html on line 366: Juvenalixen satiirit 100-luvulla syntyi aika nykyistä vastaavassa tilanteessa toistasataaluvulla AD missä Rooma oli äkkiä aivan väärällään hoono latina murtavia kaikenvärisiä matuja. Persuroomalaiset pitivät tätä hyvin hyvin pahana. Esim Juvenalixella on sikermässä 14 aika kylmäävää antisemitismiä hyvinkin tutunomaisilla klicheillä. Eriseuraisia tuppikulleja ja vitun rahanahneita.
ellauri249.html on line 392: Protestantismi, kapitalismi ja semitismi ovat luontevia petikavereita, syistä jotka mainittiin jo Juvenalixen satiirissa.
xxx/ellauri295.html on line 158: Josefus ei ollut ainoa muinainen kirjailija, joka ehdotti insestiläisiä suhteita Bereniken ja Agrippan välillä. Juvenal väittää kuudennessa satiirissaan suoraan, että he olivat rakastajia.
xxx/ellauri306.html on line 177: Aulus Persius Flaccus (34–62) oli roomalainen runoilija ja satiirikko. Hänen elinaikaansa kutsutaan roomalaisen kirjallisuuden hopea-ajaksi ja samaan aikaan elivät myös Martialis ja Juvenalis.
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