PERSIUS

or Aulus Persius Flaccuspûrˈshēəs; ôlˈəs, flăkˈəs, a.d. 34–a.d. 62, Roman satirical poet, b. Etruria. A member of a distinguished family, he went to Rome in boyhood, was educated there, and came under the influence of the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, to whom he became attached in lasting friendship. Gentle and modest by nature, Persius had high moral standards. His writings (only six short satires), influenced in manner by Horace and Lucilius, preach Stoic moral doctrine. He exposed to censure the corruption and folly of contemporary Roman life, contrasting it with the ideals of the Stoics and of earlier Rome. Persius' writing is harsh, obscure, and difficult to translate.

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Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
Book by Kirk Freudenburg; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Horace--Criticism And Interpretation, Juvenal--Criticism And Interpretation, Lucilius, Gaius--Ca. 180-Ca. 102 B.C--Saturae, Persius--Criticism And Interpretation, Rome--In Literature, Verse Satire, Latin--History And Criticism
...advice is normally thought to be spoken by Persius to his heir, whom he now gives up on...ending, generally judged right in giving Persius his books final say. But an equally good...what ending we want, according to what Persius we want. And that readerly work of sifting...
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Figuring Genre in Roman Satire
Book by Catherine Keane; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Literary Form--History--To 1500, Literature And Society--Rome, Social Problems In Literature, Verse Satire, Latin--History And Criticism
...of book 2.42 The inter- locutors of Persius, his internal audience and his targets...their lec- turer from the beginning. Persius sends out the inflated hexameter oh the...No sooner is the line finished than Persius is interrupted: Who will read this...
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Roman Verse Satire: Lucilius to Juvenal
Book by William J. Dominik, William T. Wehrle; Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999
Subjects: Latin Poetry--Translations Into English, Rome--Poetry, Verse Satire, Latin, Verse Satire, Latin--Translations Into English
...According to the ancient biography, Persius had links with the Stoic opposition to...Literary bad taste and moral debasement are Persius main themes-what he calls the biting...107). As a literary figure, however, Persius has unfortunately been poorly received...
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The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius
Book by Mark Morford; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient, Rome--Intellectual Life
free. So Persius describes the many pursuits which enslave...other lines 189-91 . In the third satire Persius focuses on the paradox that only the wise...healthy. In this poem the student perhaps Persius himself reluctantly rises to study, and...
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John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets
Book by Claude Rawson, Aaron Santesso; University of Delaware Press, 2004
Subjects: Dryden, John--1631-1700--Criticism And Interpretation, Dryden, John--1631-1700--Dramatic Works, Dryden, John--1631-1700--Knowledge--Literature, Dryden, John--1631-1700--Political And Social Views
...an essay by William S. Anderson called Persius and the Rejection of Society. Anderson presents Persius as a passionately devout, uncompromising...from the literary point of view is that Persius forged a unique poetic style to express...
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journal articles on: Persius  - 42 results

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Aertsen's Kitchen and Market Scenes: Audience and Innovation in Northern Art
Journal article by Margaret A. Sullivan; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, 1999
Subjects: Aertsen, Pieter (1509-75), Art, Art criticism, Art history, Visual artists
...such as Juvenal, Horace, Martial, and Persius provided a wealth of colorful material...satirists with regularity. Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Martial, Lucian, and Varro are important...73 In 1544 the satires of Juvenal and Persius were published by Joannes Crinitus,74...
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Notes and Documents: Dryden and Dorset in 1692: A New Record
Journal article by James A. Winn; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Benefactors--Records and correspondence, Benefactors--Social aspects, Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of--Records and correspondence, Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of--Social aspects, Dryden, John (English poet)--Records and correspondence, Dryden, John (English poet)--Social aspects, English poets--Records and correspondence, English poets--Social aspects
...preface to his Satires of Juvenal and Persius (1693), another work dedicated to Dorset...virtually every page of Satires of Juvenal and Persius, he used his translations of the Roman...Times: Drydens Satires of Juvenal and Persius (1693)," Eighteenth-Century Life...
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The Secret Life of the Della Cruscan Sonnet: William Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad
Journal article by Marianne Van Remoortel; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: English sonnets--Criticism and interpretation, Feminist criticism, Feminist literary criticism, Gifford, William (English writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Satire--Criticism and interpretation, Sonnets, English--Criticism and interpretation, The Baviad (Fictional work)--Criticism and interpretation, The Maeviad (Fictional work)--Criticism and interpretation
...Writing in the implacable tradition of Persius, Juvenal, and Pope, Gifford fulminates...Baviad after the classical examples of Persius and Juvenal, Gifford imposed an elitist...linen. (25) The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius, Literally...
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Romantic Juvenal: Translation, Annotation, and Allusion
Journal article by Michael Edson; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: Juvenal--Criticism and interpretation, Juvenal--Works, Romanticism (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism (Literature)--Translations and translating, Satirists--Criticism and interpretation, Satirists--Works
...and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius (1789) contain five to ten times as...and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius; with Copious Explanatory Notes. What...Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, Translated into English Verse...
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The Poet and the Praetor: Travel Narratives from Early Second-century Italy
Journal article by Andrew Turner; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Italy, Narratives, Poetry, Roman civilization, Travel
...complex ways with verse satire.12 Even Persius, that most difficult and aloof of satirists...Satire, es gibt nur Lucilius, Horaz, Persius, Iuvenal (Latin satire simply does not exist; there are only Lucilius, Horace, Persius, Juvenal)14 may have been shown to...
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magazine articles on: Persius  - 4 results

 
 
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The Sharp-eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature: Part Two
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, June 1998
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, History, Philosophers, Science, Stelluti, Francesco
...duality, in a wonderfully poetic manner by extolling the lynx in his second major book, his translations of the Latin poet Persius, published in 1630. Cesi had selected the lynx for the animals legendary acuity of vision, but Stelluti added: Not merely...
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Collecting Nature
Magazine article; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Spring 1998
Subjects: Collectors (Persons)--Personal narratives, Collectors and collecting--Personal narratives
...given the objects of their study. There are butterflies named after Homer, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, Propertius, and Persius; after dozens of characters in Greek and Roman mythology; and even after several marks of punctuation--the question mark...
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Rome's Gossip Columnist: When the First-Century Poet Martial Turned His Stylus on You, You Got the Point
Magazine article by Garry Wills; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008
Subjects: Epigrams--Analysis, Martial--Criticism and interpretation, Martial--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works
...of that with Martial, since he was a social conservative, as are most satirists who castigate "deviants" (Juvenal and Persius in the ancient world, Pope and Waugh later on). Martial seems daring because he pushes conventional limits, but he does...
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A Harvard Collection at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 283, September 2003
Subjects: Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique--Works, Moreau, Gustave--Works, National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painting, European--Exhibitions, Winthrop, Grenville--Collections and collecting
...imagination long after their parting. Elsewhere in his androgynous reveries she played both Gabriel and Mary, Minerva and Persius, Cupid and Psyche. Here in the person of Danae she watches in snub-nosed wonder the building of the Tower of Brass, within...


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newspaper articles on: Persius  - 2 results

 
 
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Christmas Thieves Targeted by Police
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), October 30, 2007
...patrols will also form a key part of our strategy to reassure the public." The three-month campaign, codenamed Operation Persius, will also tell seasonal shoppers to be more cautious and not leave valuables on show. Sgt Warner said: "It is hoped that...
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Play Shows the Origins of Modern Superheroes
Newspaper article by Kathryn Grondin; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 17, 2005
...who was raised by the Amazons as Diana Prince. He also likely may touch on Thor and Spider-Man, as well as Persephone, Persius and Medusa with her hair of snakes. Lynch, who runs History for Kids with wife Laura, has 20 years of experience as a professional...


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encyclopedia articles on: Persius  - 5 results

 
 
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Persius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PERSIUS or Aulus Persius Flaccus pur she s; ol s, flak s, a.d. 34 a.d. 62, Roman satirical...became attached in lasting friendship. Gentle and modest by nature, Persius had high moral standards. His writings (only six short satires...
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Gifford, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The Baviad (1794) and The Maeviad (1795), satirizing the English Della-Cruscans . He translated Juvenal (1802) and Persius (1821) and edited the works of Massinger, Jonson, and John Ford. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Congreve, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...studied law in the Middle Temple. After publishing a novel of intrigue, Incognita (1692), and translations of Juvenal and Persius (1693), he turned to writing for the stage. His first comedy, The Old Bachelor (1693), produced when he was only 23...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...first half of the 1st cent. a.d., Latin literature in its classical form was in decline. The works of Seneca , Lucan , Persius , and Statius typify a period in which the masters, both Latin and Greek, were imitated. Among the most original poets were...
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Lucilius, Gaius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...founder of Latin satire, b. Campania, Italy. About 1,300 fragments survive from his 30 books. He influenced Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...


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