The Sixteen Satires - Penguin Classics

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

ISBN:	9780140447040
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	27 Aug 1998
DEWEY:	877.01
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	252
Weight:	240g
Height:	197mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	20mm

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