Juvenal (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
Life
Little concrete information exists on the life of Juvenal (JEW-vuhn-uhl), and most of it ultimately comes from his poems. The persona in his poems is that of a disgruntled Roman, probably of the equestrian class, who views the pervasive changes in his society with bitter disdain. In contrast to earlier Roman satire, the hallmark of Juvenal’s work is indignatio (anger), and his style is highly rhetorical and bombastic. The collection of satires Saturae (100-127 c.e.; Satires, 1693) consists of sixteen poems divided into five books. His targets are...
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