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The Sixteen Satires

Af: Juvenal Engelsk Paperback

The Sixteen Satires

Af: Juvenal Engelsk Paperback
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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
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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
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780140447040
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0140447040
Udg. Dato: 27 aug 1998
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 27 aug 1998
Forfatter(e): Juvenal
Forfatter(e) Juvenal


Kategori Antikken & Middelalder


ISBN-13 9780140447040


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 131mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 27 aug 1998


Oplagsdato 27 aug 1998


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd