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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.
Within this Satire, Juvenal calls Rome a, "a chaotic metropolis where life has become dangerous for honest men" [10] Satire 4-- The fourth satire is a mock heroic epic, describing a council convened by Domitian.
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.
"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.
Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – Satyricon; Juvenal (1st to early 2nd cc. CE, Roman Empire) – Satires; Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire) Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – The Golden Ass; Various authors (9th century CE and later) – One Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ
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 ...
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The satirist Juvenal describes a prostitute as standing naked "with gilded nipples" at the entrance to her cell. [40] The adjective nudus , however, can also mean "exposed" or stripped of one's outer clothing, and the erotic wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum show women presumed to be prostitutes wearing the Roman equivalent of a bra ...