Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1944 Juvenal the Reformer and His Age John P. Fisher Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the Classical Literature and Philology Commons Recommended Citation Fisher, John P., "Juvenal the Reformer and His Age" (1944). Master's Theses. 617. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/617 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1944 John P. Fisher ,; ! Ju~nal The Reformer and His Age By John P. Fisher A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Loyola University December 1944 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter I. General Character of The Period •••••••••••••••••• 1 Juvenal's mode of attack -- The rise of slavery The influence of slavery-- Severe treatment of Ro- man slaves -- Roman religion, its doctrines and practice -- The Roman philosophical groups -- Jews and Christians -- Favored groups, clients and delatores -- The growth of delatio -- The equites,- plebians, and slaves -- The laboring class -- The Roman mime -- The lot of grammarians and rhetor- icians -- The sad lot of the other arts -- The pro- fession of the common soldier. II. The Biography of Juvenal....................... 34 The conjectured dates of Juvenal's birth-- Some events of his life -- Reasons for his exile Status of the acting profession in Rome -- The meaning of satire -- Formal and informal satire Examples of English satirical works -- Lucilius Horace -- Persius.