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Juvenal’s Top Tips to Make Rome Great Again: 1. Get rid of the damn foreigners 2. Get rid of those effeminate queers 3. Make sure women Know Their Place 4. Get rid of the rich snobs 5. And the bloody nouveau riche 6. Return to the Good Old Days and the Simple Life 7. More people should be farmers and Leggi tutto

These are a collection of sixteen satiric monologues where Juvenal does his best to poke his finger in the eye of the Roman society of his day for not living up to its heritage. This armchair classicist found Juvenal to be grossly over-rated. Maybe he has been given such scholarly acclaim because he Leggi tutto

Juvenal sounds a little bitter. His complaints seem pretty relevant today, though. These Sixteen Satires made me think about how every generation thinks its the last, thinks it's the end of the world. Many individuals of any generation, ancient or contemporary, having achieved a certain age, believe Leggi tutto

I've long been sceptical of contemporary novels that are advertized as satires. Consider Jonathan Coe's 'Rotters' Club,' which was okay, but compared even to a supposedly realistic novel like 'The Line of Beauty,' contained little satire beyond its propensity for pointing out that people ate some re Leggi tutto

If you would like a glimpse of everyday life in Ancient Rome, you could hardly do better than read The Sixteen Satires of Juvenal . There, like a National Lampoon chiseled in stone, are all the everyday flaws -- that are still flaws today -- that mess up people's lives. It is all done with a light to Leggi tutto

"É preciso ser-se rico para poder dormir sem barulhos,em calmas moradias(...).A passagem de carroças nas ruas estreitas ou as discussões por causa de um rebanho(...) tiram o sono a qualquer um.(...)E,se se isto não bastasse,há ainda outro género de perigos aos quais estamos expostos,quando caminhamo Leggi tutto

This is a collection of satires about Roman society in I-II AD. Plot. Rating 4 Usually, each satire is devoted to some general topic and does not have a thorough plot, but is a set of situations or thoughts. However, the satire about fish has a good plot. At this point, it is necessary to take into ac Leggi tutto