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Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ ˈ dʒ uː v ən əl / JOO-vən-əl; c. 55–128), was a Roman poet. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires .
Kandahar – 2001 Franco-Iranian film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, about an exile's return to Afghanistan; stars Dawud Salahuddin who, in real life, was an American-born assassin for Iranian intelligence O Processo dos Távoras – 2001 Portuguese RTP miniseries [ 26 ] by Wilson Solon about the trial of members of the nobility accused in the attempted ...
The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist.Although in its modern usage the phrase has wide-reaching applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of ...
Juvenal likely had monastic roots as he attended a monastery in the Kedron valley and was known for his strong support of Palestinian monasticism; many of the men he ordained to the ranks of the clergy were local monks. He also did much to promote liturgical development in Jerusalem and its environs; it was during his episcopate that the Feast ...
Juvenal claims as his purview, the entire gamut of human experience since the dawn of history. Quintilian—in the context of a discussion of literary genres appropriate for an oratorical education—claimed that, unlike so many literary and artistic forms adopted from Greek models, "satire at least is all ours" ( satura quidem tota nostra est ...
Details about the personal life of Tacitus are scarce. What little is known comes from scattered hints throughout his work, the letters of his friend and admirer Pliny the Younger, and an inscription found at Mylasa in Caria.
Myst III: Exile: 2001 Presto Studios Mac OS, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox: The third game of the series, Myst III: Exile, was developed by Presto Studios and published by Ubisoft in 2001. Exile continued with the frame-based method of player movement, but used a game engine to allow a 360-degree field of view from any point. [6]
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front is a 2018 non-fiction book by Canadian journalist Judi Rever and published by Random House of Canada; it has also been translated into Dutch and French.