The Invisible Satirist Juvenal and Second century Rome 1st Edition by James Uden ISBN 978-0199387274 0199387273

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ISBN 10:   0199387273

ISBN 13: 978-0199387274

Author: James Uden

The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on issues of genre, this study situates Juvenal’s Satires within the context of the politics, oratory, and philosophy of Rome under Trajan and Hadrian. In particular, the book shows how Juvenal offers a distinctively Roman response to the Greek sophists and philosophers of the so-called “Second Sophistic.” Whereas earlier studies argued for the satirist’s adoption of an ironic persona in his poems, this book stresses the absence of any guiding, coherent first-person voice in his work, emphasizing instead the poems’ plurality of voices and thematic preoccupation with performance and disguise. These sprawling rhetorical texts, intricately constructed but deliberately lacking any strong personal voice, ultimately communicate a sense of rootlessness and loss of identity-a sense of being invisible-within the cosmopolitan second-century world. The book will appeal to students and scholars of Roman satire, Imperial Roman culture, and Second Sophistic literature.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: Poetry, Accusation and the Audience’s Role
Chapter 2: The Invisibility of Juvenal
Chapter 3: New Views in the Graeca Urbs
Chapter 4: Genealogy and Nobility in Hadrian’s Rome
Chapter 5: The Satirist among Cynics
Chapter 6: Satire 12
Chapter 7: Outsider Empire
Chapter 8: The Date of Juvenal’s First Book of Satires

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