Book · 100 · Fiction

The Satires

Name: The Satires
Author: Juvenal

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 320 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Bread and circuses came from here, and so did the line about guarding the guards. Juvenal turns sixteen poems of fury on imperial Rome, where an honest man cannot afford to live.

Genre

Satire

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Morality Hypocrisy Society

Setting

Rome

Time

100Depicts Classical Antiquity

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