โ Juvenal
๐ Fiction
๐
2004
๐ Penguin Books Ltd
๐ English
โ 280 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Sixteen Satires
โ Scribed by Juvenal
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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 dynamic outsiders, he offers equally savage portraits of decadent aristocrats; women interested only in 'rough trade' like actors and gladiators; and the jumped-up sons of panders and auctioneers. He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with their stern upright forebears. And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious patrons.
Green's celebrated translation is fully annotated and clarifies all references and allusions in the text, making it...
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