TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juvenal
TI  - The sixteen satires : translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Green
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 9780140441949
U1  - 851 
PY  - 1967///
CY  - Harmondsworth
PB  - penguin Books
KW  - Verse satire, Latin -- Translations into English
N1  - Index
N2  - 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
ER  -