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Juvenal and Persius, Saturae (Aldine Press)
Rome was a city of rot, greed, and vanity, and these two poets were its most unforgiving witnesses. Read these satires to see how ancient elites hid their crimes behind tradition and why the scramble for wealth ruins the human spirit.