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The Sixteen Satires
Af: Juvenal
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Sixteen Satires af Juvenal, 9780140447040
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780140447040
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0140447040
Udg. Dato:
27 aug 1998
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 13,1 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
27 aug 1998
Forfatter(e):

The Sixteen Satires

Af: Juvenal
Engelsk
Paperback 1998
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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
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780140447040
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0140447040
Udg. Dato:
27 aug 1998
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 13,1 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
27 aug 1998
Forfatter(e):
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