Juvenal: Satires Book V

by John Godwin

Book Overview

Juvenal's fifth and final book of Satires consists of three complete poems and one fragment and continues and completes his satirical assessment of the Rome of the early second century AD. The poems treat us to a scandalised exposure of folly and vice and also the voice of sweet reason as the poet advises us how to live our lives - all delivered in the hugely entertaining tones of a great master of the Latin language. There is here laugh-out-loud...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789622182
• ISBN13: 9781789622188
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"