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Juvenal

Also known as Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ; AD 55–128), was a Roman poet. He is the author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, but references in his works to people from the late first and early second centuries suggest that he began writing no earlier than that time. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. A reference to a political figure dates his fifth and final surviving book to sometime after 127.

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Juvenal was a Roman poet from the 1st-2nd centuries AD best known for writing the Satires, a collection of satirical poems that critiqued Roman society and figures of his time. Though little is definitively known about his life, scholars believe he began writing around 100 AD and continued into at least 127 AD, making his sharp social commentary an important surviving record of how Romans viewed their own world.

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Born: 1907
Died: 1980
Works: 92

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition). In accord with the vitriolic manner of Lucilius – the originator of the genre of Roman satire – and within a poetic tradition that also included Horace and Persius <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Juvenal">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponamVexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?”
“Difficile est saturam non scribere.”
“Probitas laudatur et alget”
“Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.”
“Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.”
“Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.”

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Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.name: Juvenal
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.image: Juvenalcrowned.gif
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.caption: Frontispiece from John Dryden, TheSatires of Decimus Junius Juvenalisand of Aulus Persius Flaccus
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.birth_date: c. AD 55
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.birth_place: Aquinum, Italy, Roman Empire
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.death_date: 128 (aged c. 73)
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.occupation: Poet
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.nationality: Roman
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.genre: Satire

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Commons category: Juvenal
date of death: 0140-00-00
name in native language: Decimus Iunius Iuuenalis
date of birth: 0055-00-00
Commons Creator page: Juvenal
P12674: Heinrich Stromer
P12749: Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
P13311: Cittiglio

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Juvenal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. These poems cover a range of Roman topics. This follows Lucilius—the originator of the Roman satire genre, and it fits within a poetic tradition that also includes Horace and Persius. The Satires are a vital source for the study of ancient Rome from a number of perspectives, although their comic mode of expression makes it problematic to accept the content as strictly factual. At first glance the Satires could be read as a critique of Rome.