Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal

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Cambridge University Press, Oct 25, 2001 - History - 289 pages
This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of Roman cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere "generic adjustments" that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and much lionized, Republican identity.

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Contents

Acknowledgments
ix
Key dates for the study of Roman verse satire
xii
Glossary of key names and technical terms
xv
Introduction
1
Horace
15
Sermones book 1 and the problem of genre
23
satire made new in Sermones 11
27
since when is enough a feast?
44
topdown aesthetics and the making of oneself
134
Persius I and the death of criticism
151
The satiristphysician and his outofjoint world
173
finding a lost pile in P 2
183
P 4
189
satire as legacy in P 6
195
Juvenal
209
time warp and martyr tales in Trajans Rome
215

along for the ride in Sermones 15
51
Sermones 1610
58
new rules for a New Age
71
Panegyric bluster and Ennius Scipio in Horace Sermones 21
82
the new look of postActian satire
93
Big friends and bravado in Sermones 21
100
Book 2 and the hissings of compliance
108
too much of not enough
117
Persius
125
Ghostassault in Juv 1
234
The poor mans Lucilius
242
from exaggeration to selfdefeat
248
the emperorsatirist of Juv 4
258
the poor mans lunch of Umbricius and Trebius
264
List of works cited
278
General index
285
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Kirk Freudenburg is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and has previously taught at Kent State University. He has published widely on Latin literature and is the author of The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Princeton, 1993) (0691 031665). He is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire and Book II of Horace's Sermones for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.