Satires: With the Satires of Persius (Everyman's Library)

Juvenal's sixteen satires depict the brutal Roman society of his day; though written in the first century A.D., these works provided a model for the incisive satires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the present. The accompanying six satires of Persius, offering astonishing breadth of ideas and insight into contemporary Roman society, are dialogues whose speakers are indicated in this edition.