Lo que hoy entendemos por sátira no se corresponde exactamente con lo que se entendía en latín por «satura». Este término designaba un género literario histórico con una forma métric...
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Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. The bite and wit of these two satirists are captured...
The complexity of the Roman scene is presented by the satirist Juvenal in these verses, which were written during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Peter Green's introduction says of Juvenal's satires,