CLAS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Imaginary Conversations, Xenophobia, Eunuch

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Classical Culture
• Course: CLAS 1010
• Professor: Erasmo

Document Summary

Born in 60 ad, during the reign of nero, spent teens under vespasian, and early manhood under the terrible domitian . Started publishing in ad 112 (reign of trajan) and finished in 130 (reign of hadrian) Stern moralist, extravagant wit, and his powerful attacks on the vices of imperial rome have been admired and exploited by several . Juvenal: book 1, ~112; and book 2, ~117. The life and circumstances of juvenal are unclear, little guidance. Juvenal: book 3, ~121; book 4, ~125; book 5, ~130. [historically] except evidence of martial and some scattered shreds of evidence supplied by the poems themselves. Book 1 contains satires 1-5 reference to marius priscus" trial must have been published some time after ad100 but before/around ad112. Juvenal"s publishing begins at the time when the bad years of domitian were giving way to the humane and tolerant rule of nerva (96-8) and.