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...

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...

Juvenal (died c. 127), or Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was the greatest of the Roman satirists. His bitter and rhetorical denunciations of Roman society, presented in a series of vivid pictures of Roman life, inspired all later satirists. The life of...