Little is known of Juvenal’s life beyond his satire. His name only appears once, in a poem written to him by his friend, Martial. It is believed that Juvenal was born to a prosperous family in central ...

What does this quote mean? The quote “Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt” by Juvenal means that if rulers provide people with basic needs (bread) and entertainment or ...

On the great Roman satirist. Probably the most politically incorrect Roman poet, certainly the most caustic, was the satirist Decimus Junius Juvenalis—Juvenal to us. We expect satirists to expose ...

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 of ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In this episode, we tackle Juvenal, whose sixteen satires influenced libertines, neoclassicists and early Christian ...

Juvenal was a Roman poet who was best known for his work Satires, in which he sharply criticized the social, political, and moral shortcomings of Roman society. Quote of the Day: “Give them bread and ...