2V Juvenal DI JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRAE XVI 1825 Decorative Binding Roman A Persii Flacci Satirae Persium Etruscan Satirist Dactylic Hexameter Satiric Poems Commentary
Title: D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Fidem Recensitae Varietate Lectionum Perpetuoque Commentario Illustratae et Indice Uberrimo Instructae a GE. Alex. Ruperti. Quibus Adjectae Sunt, A. Persii Flacci Satirae ex Recensione et cum Notis G. L. Koenig
Author: A. Persii Flacci - Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus, was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries. His works, which became very popular in the Middle Ages, were published after his death by his friend and mentor, the stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus., D. Junii Juvenalis - Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. Because of a reference to a recent political figure, his fifth and final surviving book must date from after 127.

Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. These poems cover a range of Roman topics. This follows Lucilius—the originator of the Roman satire genre, and it fits within a poetic tradition that also includes Horace and Persius. The Satires are a vital source for the study of ancient Rome from a number of perspectives, although their comic mode of expression makes it problematic to accept the content as strictly factual. At first glance the Satires could be read as a critique of pagan Rome. That critique may have ensured their survival in the Christian monastic scriptoria although the majority of ancient texts did not survive.
Editor: Ge. Alex Ruperti, G.L. Koenig
Publisher: Andreas et Joannes M. Duncan/Ricardi Priestley
City: Glasguae/Londini
Year: 1825
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes
Width: 5.5" Height: 9"
Book Details: This antique, complete two-volume set is bound in marbled paper with raised leather spines decorated with gilt tooling and blind-stamped ornamentation. Volume I is embellished with an engraved frontispiece and preliminary title page.

These volumes contain the Satires of Juvenal with commentary, as well as the six Satires of Persius, also with commentary.
Condition / Notes: This handsomely bound set shows nicely with mild to moderate signs of age and wear. The front board to Volume I is separated and present and the rear board is separating. Sections to the spine of Volume I are lacking although the textblock binding is sound. The binding to Volume II is sound and firm.

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