Juvenal's scripta matrona: Elegiac Resonances in Satire 6.

Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet co...

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Published in:Mnemosyne Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 628 - 641
Main Author: Watson, Patricia
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2007
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