The primary evidence for the life of Juvenal is the small amount of information that can be gleaned from the Saturae (Satires) themselves. The first satire relates that Juvenal received the standard Roman school education and performed the rhetorical exe...

c. 55-c. 127 Roman satirist whose On the City of Rome provides a richly detailed and highly revealing portrait of daily life in Rome. Seen through the eyes of a friend leaving the city for the simpler life of the country, the city is a bustling,...

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the...

It is difficult not to write satire.--Juvenal, on the Rome of his day J'ai en ce moment une forte rage de Juvenal. Quel style! quel style! --Flaubert, in a letter of 1853 Satire, if it is to do any good and...

Juvenal Habyarimana, soldier, politician: born Gasiza, Gisenyi province, Ruanda (now Rwanda) 8 March 1937; President of Rwanda 1973-94; marriedPbJu+XKangika (seven children); died Kigali, Rwanda 6 April 1994. THERE IS a cruel symmetry in the fact that a single rocket should destroy the plane...

Two suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a priest and a prefect, were arrested Friday in France on a warrant from an international court investigating the massacres, judicial officials said.Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Roman Catholic priest in Normandy, and Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former prefect, were jailed...

France rejected an asylum appeal from the widow of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana on Thursday, saying she was at the heart of the regime responsible for her country's 1994 genocide.The French refugee agency originally rejected Agathe Habyarimana's request on Jan 4. The case went...