Frontispiece from the 1711 publication of Juvenal’s Satires. Wiki Commons The beginning of Roman satire Roman satire bears only a distant family resemblance to the modern idea of satire. Instead ...

"Who will watch the watchers?" asked Roman poet Juvenal way back in the first century C.E. Nature has been addressing that ...

The last great Roman satirist, Juvenal (c.55 – 127 AD) became famous for his savage wit and biting descriptions of life in Rome.

The American people are being forced to confront a fundamental political question that was first asked centuries ago by the Roman satirist Juvenal: Who shall guard the guardians? What to do when ...

AT the beginning of the second century a tight-lipped Roman, Juvenal, rasped his scorn of the frivolity of a populace that demanded both bread and circuses. Generations of schoolboys have accepted ...

“Disgusted, the satirist (and ancient Roman Poet) Juvenal accused his fellow citizens of selling out for bribes of ‘bread and circuses.’” ...

It is from Juvenal too that we find an extremely ungenerous description of a woman fighting as a gladiator: female gladiators were extremely rare, but they did exist.

An angry man stands at the crossroads and rails against the moral cesspit around him, teeming with sexual deviants and jumped-up immigrants. This is the image which the Roman poet Juvenal paints ...

Is there any dish more Roman than “Trojan pig”? It consists of a whole roast pig, its body cavity stuffed with smaller roasts just as the Trojan horse was filled with men. With its suggestion ...

The last great Roman satirist, Juvenal (c.55 – 127 AD) became famous for his savage wit and biting descriptions of life in Rome. The invisible man Little is known of Juvenal’s life beyond his ...