There is nothing new about artists engaging in the politics of their communities. The plays of Aristophanes savaged the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In this episode, we tackle Juvenal, whose sixteen satires influenced libertines, neoclassicists and early Christian ...

Colin and Clare place the satires within Donne’s life and times, and explain why the secret to understanding their language lies in the poet's use of the ‘profoundly unruly parenthesis’. This is an ...

Juvenal was the most savage of all the Roman ... problem – how to cook a fish too large for any pan. Together, the 16 satires paint a vivid picture of the Rome he knew, its people, their lives ...