It is believed that Juvenal was born to a prosperous family in central Italy. After military service, it is thought that he began a career in the Roman civil service under the Emperor Domitian ...

This quote, attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal, refers to how the population can usually be kept appeased as long as they ...

In bad times, or during political unrest, there was always the risk of the Roman ‘mob’ rioting or ... system of state bribery that the writer Juvenal described as ‘bread and circuses’.

Juvenal railed bitterly against flirtatious Roman ladies in whose eyes any gladiator, however ugly, was “transformed into a Hyacinthus.” No Ziegfeld girl ever inspired a male reaction remotely ...