The Sixteen Satires
Revised Edition
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 December 1998
Summary
An insight into the splendour, squalor and energy of everyday 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447040 |
| Author: | Juvenal, Peter Green |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 2 December 1998 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Juvenal
Little is known about Juvenal’s life (A.D. 55 - 140) except that his satirical sketches caused much controversy and resulted in him being exiled from his home country for a period of years.
Peter Green was Director of Studies in Classics at Cambridge and then worked for a number of years as a freelance writer, translator and journalist. In 1963 he emigrated to Greece and lectured in Greek history and literature at Athens from 1966 to 1971. He is now Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin.
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