In this short book, Bartsch explores an understudied poet and satirist who lived in Rome during the time of Nero, a man named Persius who was friends with Lucan

"Reprint, with minor correction, of the first edition first published 1980 by the Athlone Press, London, UK"-- t.p. verso.

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest or