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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…

Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, he offers equally savage portraits of decadent aristocrats; women interested only in 'rough trade' like actors and gladiators; and the jumped-up sons of panders and auctioneers. He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with their stern upright forebears. And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious…

Ювенал - последний классик римской сатиры. Он был захвачен общим энтузиазмом, вызванным смертью Домициана и приходом к власти императора Траяна. Одушевленный ненавистью к свергнутому тирану, он создает ряд сатир в резкой форме, принесших ему в веках славу беспощадного бичующего разоблачителя.

В книгу вошли 16 сатир, в которых автор пытается как-то оценить и осмыслить этически изображаемую им жизнь. Ювенал дает возможность глубже узнать Рим, а также понять и осмыслить целый ряд явлений позднейшей европейской, в том числе и русской литературы.