LA SÁTIRA SEXTA DE JUVENAL O EL TÓPICO DE LA MISOGINIA

Authors

  • Mª Teresa Beltrán Noguer
  • Ángela Sánchez-Lafuente Andrés
Keywords: Juvenal, satire, women, criticism, misogyny

Abstract

The Sixth Satire of Juvenal is unclassifiable. It cannot be included in the moralistic criticism in which the writer upbraids vices so that society reacts against them. The married woman, condition inherent to that of adultery, is the target of the poet’s verbal stroke. For this purpose, he bears in mind his predecessors in the topic, especially the Greek Semonides, Aristophanes and Theophrastus, and, of course, Latin satire’s “inventor”: Lucilius. He goes beyond all of the rest when speaking against women. However, his discourse does not intend to be didactic, but it is just a stream of the different types of women who personify all the conceivable vices. For this reason, Juvenal’s advises the imaginary interlocutor not to get married. In Spanish Literature, Francisco de Quevedo will be the inheritor of this piece of advice.

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Author Biographies

Mª Teresa Beltrán Noguer

Dpto. de Filología Clásica, Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia

Ángela Sánchez-Lafuente Andrés

Dpto. de Filología Clásica, Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia
How to Cite
Beltrán Noguer, M. T., & Sánchez-Lafuente Andrés, Ángela. (2008). LA SÁTIRA SEXTA DE JUVENAL O EL TÓPICO DE LA MISOGINIA. Myrtia, 23, 225–244. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/71271
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