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Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ ˈ dʒ uː v ən əl / JOO-vən-əl; c. 55–128), was a Roman poet. He is the author of the Satires , a collection of satirical poems.
Duff was the son of Colonel James Duff, a retired army officer living in Aberdeenshire, and Jane Bracken Dunlop.He and his twin brother Alan were among the first boys at Fettes College, Edinburgh; he came as a scholar to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1878 and was elected a Classical Fellow in 1883, a post he held until his death.
Juvenal also provided a source for the name for a forensically important beetle, Histeridae. Juvenal is the source of many well-known maxims, including: that the common people—rather than caring about their freedom—are only interested in "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses 10.81; i.e. food and entertainment),
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) wrote two Gothic novels when a student: Zastrozzi: A Romance (published 1810) and St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (published 1811). Also a volume of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, was published in 1810.
The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist.Although in its modern usage the phrase has wide-reaching applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of ...
Juvenal was concerned with the morality and actions of the Roman elite; Satire VI can equally be read as an invective against the men who have permitted this pervasive degradation of the Roman world. The author harshly criticizes avaricious husbands who marry not for love but for the dowry and subsequently allow their rich wives to do whatever ...
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