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Satirae

Juvenal

1807250 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1807
first published
  • 1807Payne and Mackinlay · 572 pages · ENG
  • 1899Macmillan · 337 pages · ENG
  • 1963New American Library · 288 pages · ENG
  • 1991Clarendon Press · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780198147565
  • 1992Oxford University Press · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780192817624
  • 1996Cambridge University Press · 323 pages · ENGISBN 9780521356671
  • 2008Oxford University Press · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780199540662
  • 1999Oxford University Press, USA · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780192839459

In the Satires, Juvenal mocks in verse the venal behaviors common to the powerful in the Rome of his time. The Satires became a standard Latin reader for students learning that language. It has been consequently been translated into many modern language editions, both in literal and verse translations.

How it feels

Emotional toneIronic
HumourWry

When and where

Reading situationBedtime
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