Figuring Out Roman Nobility by John Henderson

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nonfiction classics literary poetry challenging medium-paced
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Henderson shows how Juvenal's eighth Satire makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process reveals the ideas and practices of aristocratic culture - the display of genealogies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the culture of...

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