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Juvenal
Juvenal was one of the most important Latin satirical poets of the Roman Empire, active from the late first to early second century CE, renowned for …
Timeline
- c. 55–90Aquinum · LazioAccording to tradition, Juvenal was born in the area of Aquinum in central Italy and later went to Rome for rhetorical training, laying the linguistic and argumentative foundations for his later satirical work.
- c. 100–127Rome · RomeIn the urban environment of Rome he composed his sixteen Satires, denouncing social injustice, bureaucratic corruption, and moral decline in the first person, becoming a major representative of Latin literature in the late Empire.
Sources
- Juvenal and Persius — Juvenal (1918)
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary — Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (2012)