**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 a
The Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics)
โ Scribed by Juvenal
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 280 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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