The Sixteen Satires
€18.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780140447040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juvenal |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.242 |
| Publishing Date | 27/08/1998 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €17.69 |
| Tax | €1.06 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €18.75 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product 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