The SatiresAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 12 June 2008
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Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson, Dryden, and most notably, Dr Johnson, who described his writing as `a mixture of gaiety and statelines, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur. Juvenal has been seen as a stern moralist and, more recently, as an extravagant wit, and is acclaimed for his vivid description of the scenes which aroused his anger. He coined the famous phrase designating people `eager and anxious for two things; bread and races (panem et circenses). Niall Rudds translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenals hexameters. William Barrs Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
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