Satires

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• Juvenal's satires are an angry denunciation of Roman decadence.
• It’s harder not to be writing satires.
• He vilifies Greeks as a corruption that had infiltrated Rome’s otherwise stalwart culture.

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• When he pokes, he pokes hard, to hurt.
• His satire is bitter—an adjective that is never far from the poet's name.
• Once Juvenal entered the bloodstream of European literature, he stuck.

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• You get to know Juvenal pretty well from reading the Satires.
• He is a bit like the co-worker you can't stand to begin with, but who you warm to eventually.
• Juvenal is a sharp social critic whose satire exposes the grotesque materialism and moral corruption of Roman society.