List of Illustrations viii
Abbreviations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Persius and Juvenal as Satiric Successors 1
Josiah Osgood
Part I Persius and Juvenal: Texts and Contexts 17
1 Satire in the Republic: From Lucilius to Horace 19
Ralph M. Rosen
2 The Life and Times of Persius: The Neronian Literary
“Renaissance” 41
Martin T. Dinter
3 Juvenalis Eques: A Dissident Voice from the Lower Tier of the
Roman Elite 59
David Armstrong
4 Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius’ Satires 79
Catherine Keane
5 Juvenal: The Idea of the Book 97
Barbara K. Gold
6 Satiric Textures: Style, Meter, and Rhetoric 113
E.J. Kenney
7 Manuscripts of Juvenal and Persius 137
Holt. N. Parker
Part II Retrospectives: Persius and Juvenal as Successors 163
8 Venusina lucerna: Horace, Callimachus, and Imperial Satire
165
Andrea Cucchiarelli
9 Self-Representation and Performativity 190
Paul Roche
10 Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism 217
Shadi Bartsch
11 Persius, Juvenal, and Literary History after Horace 239
Charles McNelis
12 Imperial Satire and Rhetoric 262
Christopher S. van den Berg
13 Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal 283
Matthew Roller
14 Imperial Satire as Saturnalia 312
Paul Allen Miller
Part III Prospectives: The Successors of Persius and Juvenal 335
15 Imperial Satire Reiterated: Late Antiquity through the
Twentieth Century 337
Dan Hooley
16 Persius, Juvenal, and the Transformation of Satire in Late
Antiquity 363
Cristiana Sogno
17 Imperial Satire in the English Renaissance 386
Stuart Gillespie
18 Imperial Satire Theorized: Dryden’s Discourse of Satire
409
Josiah Osgood and Susanna Braund
19 Imperial Satire and the Scholars 436
Holt N. Parker and Susanna Braund
20 School Texts of Persius and Juvenal 465
Amy Richlin
21 Revoicing Imperial Satire 486
Gideon Nisbet
22 Persius and Juvenal in the Media Age 513
Martin M. Winkler
References 545
Index Locorum 587
General Index 603
Susanna Braund is Professor of Latin Poetry and itsReception at the University of British Columbia. She is the authorof Latin Literature (2002), a major edition of Seneca s De Clementia (2009), and translator of ALucan Reader. Selections from Civil War (2009). Josiah Osgood is Professor of Classics at GeorgetownUniversity. He is author of Caesar s Legacy: Civil War andthe Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), ClaudiusCaesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (2011), and A Suetonius Reader (2011).
Braund and Osgood's A Companion to Persius and Juvenalisan excellent book. Specialists, non-specialists, and studentsalike will find in this volume a comprehensive and spaciousapproach to these challenging poets. (Phoenix,1 May 2014) The whole book can be recommended, but I will single outa few chapters as especially interesting... In general, this is auseful book and a good first port-of-call for those new to thesubjects. (Religious Studies Review, 1 December2013) This dense volume makes a stimulating contribution to thestudy of imperial Latin satire. (Bryn MawrClassical Review, 1 October 2013) Graced with a 40-page bibliography, this 600-page workshould become indispensable to classical scholars and anyoneinterested in satire. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-levelundergraduates and above. (Choice, 1 July2013)
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