- Published: 2 December 1998
- ISBN: 9780140447040
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $37.00
The Sixteen Satires
An insight into the splendour, squalor and energy of everday Roman life
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
- Published: 2 December 1998
- ISBN: 9780140447040
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $37.00