Guide to the Classics: Juvenal, the true satirist of Rome
- Written by Robert Cowan, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Sydney
Thomas Couture, The Romans and their Decadence, 1847. Wikimedia
An angry man stands at the crossroads and rails against the moral cesspit around him, teeming with sexual deviants and jumped-up immigrants. This is the image which the Roman poet Juvenal paints of the satirist castigating the vices of contemporary Rome.
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