| #172639 in Books | 1999-02-01 | 1999-02-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.70 x5.10l,.53 | File Name: 0140447040 | 320 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I remember Juvenal as a brilliant Roman satirist from my high school Latin reading|By Fred E. Dorey|I remember Juvenal as a brilliant Roman satirist from my high school Latin reading. "Welcome, traveler, to glorious Rome! Watch out ...here comes the garbage slop out the window into the sewer." I tried to wade into The Sixteen Satires. The introduction by the translator (a|About the Author|Less is known about the life of Juvenal (D. Iunius Iuuenalis) than was once believed - a key source, an inscription naming one Iunius Iuuenalis, refers to a later descendant, not the satirist - and such evidence as there is remains sadly
Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of ...
