What Was It Like To Live In Rome?
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Nowadays when people think of Rome, they think of the Colosseum, the Forum, and monuments which represent the magnificent imperial city. However, according to the Third Satire, written by the satirist Juvenal, Rome was as bad of a city as a person could live in. The satire begins as his friend ....
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.... today than yesterday" and by tomorrow "that will have dwindled still more" (Beatty, p. 222). He is implying that vice is rewarded as a result of social outrages while the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. According to Juvenal, "men do not easily rise whose poverty hinders their merit" (Beatty, p. 225).
Juvenal goes on to depict the physical dangers that exist in the city. According to him, people are always afraid of dangers such as fires, collapses of buildings, noisy and overcrowd ....
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