Juvenal (0055–0127)
Author of The Satires of Juvenal
About the Author
The 16 Satires (c.110--127) of Juvenal, which contain a vivid picture of contemporary Rome under the Empire, have seldom been equaled as biting diatribes. The satire was the only literary form that the Romans did not copy from the Greeks. Horace merely used it for humorous comment on human folly. show more Juvenal's invectives in powerful hexameters, exact and epigrammatic, were aimed at lax and luxurious society, tyranny (Domitian's), criminal excesses, and the immorality of women. Juvenal was so sparing of autobiographical detail that we know very little of his life. He was desperately poor at one time and may have been an important magistrate at another. His influence was great in the Middle Ages; in the seventeenth century he was well translated by Dryden, and in the eighteenth century he was paraphrased by Johnson in his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes. He inspired in Swift the same savage bitterness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Works by Juvenal
Juvenal : The Satires : Edited with introduction, commentary & bibliography (1998) — Writer — 18 copies
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius, Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes,… (2010) 14 copies
Sàtires, vol. I 4 copies
D. Ivni Ivvenalis Satvrarvm libri V 4 copies
D. Iunii Iuvenalis Saturae XIII - Thirteen Satires Of Juvenal — Author — 4 copies
Satire 3 copies
The satires of Juvenal and Persius. With English notes, critical and explanatory, from the best commentators (1873) 3 copies
Juvenalis Satirae XVI 2 copies
Satiry 2 copies
Juvenal ; edited with introduction, notes on thirteen satires, and indices, by Henry Parks Wright 2 copies
[Works] 2 copies
Thirteen satires of Juvenal 2 copies
With An English Translation 2 copies
Satirae P. McC. Paris, 1823, 2 vols. 2 copies
D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae 1 copy
Satire di D.G. Giovenale 1 copy
Satiry 1 copy
Le Satire 1 copy
Juuenalis familiare commentum [by J. Badius Ascensius] Cum Antonij Mancinelli ... explanatione. 1 copy
Iuvenalis satyr 1 copy
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal 1 copy
Thirteen Satires of Juvenal 1 copy
Juvenal Satires I, III, IV 1 copy
Satire X 1 copy
Satire V 1 copy
Sátires 1 copy
Sátiras 1 copy
Sàtires, vol. II 1 copy
Juvenal, a Dunster 1 copy
Sàtires, Vol II 1 copy
D. Junii Juvenalis Satirae: 1 copy
Sàtires, vol. 1 1 copy
Decii Junii Juvenalis Satirae XIII: Thirteen Satires Of Juvenal (1867) (Latin Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Iuuenalis : Persius 1 copy
Saturae XIV 1 copy
Sàtires, vol. 2 1 copy
The Satires of Juvenal Edited for the Use of Schools with Notes, Introduction, and Appendices (1963) 1 copy
Sàtires, II 1 copy
Sàtires, vol. II i últim 1 copy
Associated Works
The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence: Emperors of Debauchery (Decadence from Dedalus) (1994) — Contributor — 44 copies
Latijnse varia bloemlezing uit de werken van een tiental Latijnse dichters en prozaschrijvers (1954) — Contributor — 5 copies
Römische Satiren : Ennius, Lucilius, Varro, Horaz, Persius, Juvenal, Seneca, Petronius (1962) — Contributor — 3 copies
Translations from Horace, Juvenal & Montaigne — Contributor — 2 copies
A. Persii, D. Iunii Iuvenalis, Sulpiciae Saturae — Author, some editions — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Juvenal
- Legal name
- Juvenalis, Decimus Junius
Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius - Other names
- Giovenale
Giovenale, Decimo Giunio - Birthdate
- 0055
ca. 0055 - Date of death
- 0127
ca. 0127 - Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Roman Empire
- Birthplace
- Aquinum, Roam Empire (now Italy)
- Occupations
- poet
army officer
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