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
Autorentext
Autorentext
Juvenal
Titel
Sixteen Satires
Autor
Übersetzer
EAN
9780141915012
ISBN
978-0-14-191501-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
27.05.2004
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.97 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2004
Untertitel
Englisch
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