# The Sixteen Satires

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- Authors: [Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis](https://www.bookquiver.com/decimus-iunius-iuvenalis)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-501-2
- Published: 2004-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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