The Sixteen Satires

These ancient Latin verse satires attack life in imperial Rome through a speaker who claims indignation as his muse. Juvenal ridicules patrons and hungry clients, the dangers of the city, the marriage market, the vanity of military glory and long life, the farce of legacy-hunting, and the gap between Stoic talk and practice. Famous set pieces include the inconveniences of Rome and the prayer for a sound mind in a sound body. The poems are rhetorical invective arranged as numbered satires, not a plotted novel and not a calm moral treatise.

Quarter-bound in black cloth with Modigliani paper sides, printed with a red, yellow and black design by David Hughes. Black slipcase.