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Greek And Latin Voices - Juvenal

First broadcast from 20080414 to 20080417.

Series exploring literature underpinning western civilisation, focusing on the Roman satirist Juvenal.
 

4 episodes

 
SeriesEpisodeFirst
Broadcast		Description
  20080414Maria Wyke sets Juvenal in a literary context and considers how Dr Johnson reworked Satire 3 into his poem, London.
  20080415Contemporary writer and satirist Alistair Beaton explains his admiration for Juvenal and how many of the morally questionable ideas of 2nd century Rome are still relevant to 21st century Britain.
  20080416Dr Fred Jones of Liverpool University examines Juvenal's literary techniques and discovers a collage of genres taken from both Roman and Greek literature.
ESSAY04 LAST20080417Dr Susanna Braund looks at recent re-interpretations of Juvenal's Satires and sets Roman satire into a wider context of Roman anxiety about masculinity.