biography
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Juvenal
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in full Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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| lived:
| (c.55–c.130)
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| biography:
| Satirist, born in Aquinum, Italy. He served as tribune in the army, in Britain and in Egypt. He is best known for his 16 brilliant satires in verse (c.100–c.127), dealing with life in Roman times under Domitian and his successors. Written from the viewpoint of an angry Stoic moralist, they range from the exposures of unnatural vices, the misery of poverty, and the extravagance of the ruling classes, to the precarious makeshift life of their hangers-on. His influence on English poetry is best seen in Johnson's poems ‘London’ and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’, while Dryden's versions of five of Juvenal's satires are among the best of his works. |
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