Juvenal: Satires Book V by John Godwin PAPERBACK 9781789622188

Juvenal: Satires Book V\nby John Godwin\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Godwin\nTitle: Juvenal: Satires Book V\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient, classical and medieval texts\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781789622188\nISBN-10: 1789622182\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nJuvenal\u2019s fifth and final book of Satires consists of three complete poems and one fragment and continues and completes his satirical assessment of the Rome of the early second century AD. The poems treat us to a scandalised exposure of folly and vice and also the voice of sweet reason as the poet advises us how to live our lives\u2014all delivered in the hugely entertaining tones of a great master of the Latin language. There is here laugh-out-l.