Juvenal\'s Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c.
A member of the traditional land-owning class which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, he offers equally sa. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life.
Juvenal\'s Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c
