Charming, shrewd, and intimate, the voice of the Odes is that of a sociable wise man talking amusingly but candidly to admiring friends. This edition is also notable for Slavitt's extensive notes and commentary about the art of translation.

A new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal.

" . . . gives us all sixteen of the satires in the tough, slashing manner of the original, unheard in Dryden and the few others who tried it." —Saturday Review

In these roles the satirist conducts penetrating analyses of Rome's definitive social practices "from the inside." Satire's reputation as the quintessential Roman genre is thus even more justified than previously recognized."--BOOK JACKET.