Part one of term paper
? 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 Umbricius leaves the city of Rome to settle ...

Part two of term paper
... village. Umbricius feels that the city does not provide everyone with equal opportunities when he complains that the city does not reward him for his honesty and labor. In addition, he implies that normal people like himself have no chance of surviving living in the city as he says that he will "have less 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 ...