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Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics) (3rd Edition) by Peter Green (Translator), Wendell Vernon Clausen, Notes By, Peter Green Juvenal Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-14-044704-0 / 0140447040 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044704-0 / 9780140447040 Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachersPerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the she |