This is the image which the Roman poet Juvenal paints of the satirist castigating the vices of contemporary Rome. Juvenal’s Satires provide a fascinating window onto the social melting-pot that ...

In 140 B.C., politicians leading the Roman Empire, worried about holding the allegiance of citizens outside the ranks of the elite, introduced a grain dole. Over the next few centuries, millions ...

WASHINGTON -- An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power: in a famous line, with "bread and circuses." Master satirist Juvenal poked at ...

The Roman poet Juvenal once asked, "Who watches the watchmen?" The answer, apparently, is hackers. Foscam wireless security cameras are apparently not much more secure than their private webcam ...

When the Roman writer Juvenal penned the adage “bread and circuses,” he warned emperors that they must conjure such distractions to pacify peasants into accepting lousy rulers.

The Roman poet, Juvenal, wrote these words in his work, “Satires,” which came out so long ago that historians aren’t even sure if it was 100 or 200 A.D.

Washington — An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power in a famous line, with “bread and circuses.” Master satirist Juvenal poked ...

Almost 2,000 years and 10,000 kilometers separated the Roman poet Juvenal and David Marshall, a Jewish Singaporean who served as the then-colony's first chief minister, but their worries were ...

ROMAN RUINS IN AMERICA ... The Vanity of Human Wishes," he could be considered a major poet. ... affections are "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes," both based on satires of Juvenal.