The sixteen satires
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The sixteen satires
（Penguin classics）
Penguin Books, 1998
3rd ed
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This translation originally published 1967. Reprinted with revisions 1974
Translation is based on the Oxford classical text ed. of A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis saturae, edidit W.V. Clausen, 1959
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
INTRODUCTION
SATIRE I
SATIRE II
SATIRE III
SATIRE IV
SATIRE V
SATIRE VI
SATIRE VII
SATIRE VIII
SATIRE IX
SATIRE X
SATIRE XI
SATIRE XII
SATIRE XIII
SATIRE XIV
SATIRE XV
SATIRE XVI
NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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