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The Satires (Latin: Saturae) are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D. Frontispiece depicting Juvenal and Persius , from a volume translated by John Dryden in 1711
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
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 ...
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.
Sejanus's fall is depicted in the section in Juvenal's Satire X on the emptiness of power. [79] This reviews the destruction of his statues after the damnatio memoriae judgment and reflects on the fickleness of public opinion. The dramatist Ben Jonson borrowed from the poem for some passages in his Sejanus: His Fall. [80]
The Satires of Horace. A Study (1966) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [4] The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes (1973) London: Harmondsworth Press; Essays on Classical Literature, Selected from Arion and introduced by Niall Rudd (1974) Cambridge: Heffer Press
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