The Sixteen Satires
€ 18,75
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780140447040 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Juvenal |
| Editora | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 320 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,242 |
| Data de Publicação | 27/08/1998 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 17,69 |
| Imposto | € 1,06 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 18,75 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal''s powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society