The Sixteen Satires - Penguin Classics - Juvenal, Peter Green
The Sixteen Satires - Penguin Classics - Juvenal, Peter Green Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,…
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The Sixteen Satires - Penguin Classics - Juvenal, Peter Green
Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachersPerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 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. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life.
And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious patrons.Green's celebrated He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with their stern upright forebears.