Satires: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Satires, credited to Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Satires, by Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius (Juvenal). Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition). The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. These five books were discrete works, and there is no reason to assume that they were published at the same time or that they are identical in theme or in approach. The poems are not individually titled, but translators have often added titles for the convenience of readers. (Summary by wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Satires
• Author credits: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:09:49

Catalogue topics

• Ancient Texts, Classics (antiquity), Satire, Poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - Satire 1 — 13:28
2. 02 - Satire 2 — 13:17
3. 03 - Satire 3 — 29:39
4. 04 - Satire 4 — 11:15
5. 05 - Satire 5 — 12:59
6. 06 - Satire 6, part 1 — 36:15
7. 07 - Satire 6, part 2 — 32:47
8. 08 - Satire 7 — 19:11
9. 09 - Satire 8 — 20:08
10. 10 - Satire 9 — 11:25
11. 11 - Satire 10 — 28:42
12. 12 - Satire 11 — 20:24
13. 13 - Satire 12 — 9:41
14. 14 - Satire13 — 16:00
15. 15 - Satire 14 — 22:15
16. 16 - Satire 15 — 16:41
17. 17 - Satire 16 — 4:05

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