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Juvenal's Satires 1, 2, and 3 in Latin and English (translation G. G. Ramsay) at the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook; Juvenal's Satire 3 in Latin and English, at Vroma; Juvenal's Satires 1, 10, and 16, English translation by Lamberto Bozzi (2016–2017) Juvenal's Satires in English verse, through Google Books
Latin text of The Satires of Juvenal at The Latin Library; English translations of all 16 satires at the Tertullian Project. Together with a survey of the manuscript transmission. Works by Juvenal at Perseus Digital Library; English translations of Satires 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9; Juvenal's first 3 "Satires" in English
Satire VI is the most famous [according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English translation, this satire is often titled something in the vein of Against Women due to the most obvious reading of its content.
Persius. Aulus Persius Flaccus (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʃ i ə s, ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ə s /; 4 December 34 – 24 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satire, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries.
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 ...
In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
"Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In Latin literary sources, the fable was versified by Phaedrus [2] and is alluded to by Juvenal in a satire. There the merchant Catullus jettisons his rich cargo from a ship caught in a storm 'in imitation of the beaver that in its desire to escape death, will bite off its testicles and render itself a eunuch'. [3]
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