The Sixteen Satires: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)

Author: Juvenal

Brand: Penguin

Color: Multicolor

Edition: 3

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 01-02-1999

model number: 9780140447040

Part Number: 9780140447040

Details: Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society

EAN: 9780140447040

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English, Latin