... into realizing the corrosive nature of Cynic philosophy. Many of the ideas expressed in this Satire clash provocatively with those of other poems, so the chapter ends with a broader discussion of discontinuities in Juvenal’s satiric perspective. In recent times, the widely accepted argument...

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