{"product_id":"the-sixteen-satires-by-juvenal-9780140447040","title":"The Sixteen Satires","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn insight into the splendour, squalor and energy of everyday Roman life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In \u003cem\u003eThe Sixteen Satires\u003c\/em\u003e, he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats—male and female—seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConstantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46533987139820,"sku":"9780140447040","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27358173482237.jpg?v=1749399018","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-sixteen-satires-by-juvenal-9780140447040","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}