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'Who will guard the guards themselves?' In sixteen savage verse satires, Juvenal attacks the vices of imperial Rome around AD 100: the corruption of the…
Catalogue details
Author
Juvenal
Category
Poetry
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg
About this book
'Who will guard the guards themselves?' In sixteen savage verse satires, Juvenal attacks the vices of imperial Rome around AD 100: the corruption of the rich, the flatterers and fortune-hunters, the misery of life in the noisy, dangerous city, the vanity of human wishes and, in a notoriously bitter sixth satire, women. He also gave the world the phrases 'bread and circuses' and 'a sound mind in a sound body'. The volume adds the satires of Persius and Sulpicia and fragments of Lucilius.
Context and significance
Almost nothing is known of Juvenal's life. This edition gives a literal prose translation by Lewis Evans together with William Gifford's verse version, and his satires inspired Samuel Johnson's poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes. Compare the Letters of Pliny, written in the same years.