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THE SIXTEEN SATIRES
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| By: |
Juvenal, Peter Green (Trans), Peter Green |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140447040 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140447040 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 August, 1998 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
Latin |
| Description: |
Offers satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. This work draws forth a world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. It portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - and the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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