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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...

Offers a new interpretation of the complete Satires of Juvenal. Juvenal has long been recognized as a canonical figure in the genre of Roman verse satire, but The Invisible Satirist rediscovers the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome.

Explores new ways of understanding texts, practices and ideas that connected different cultural and religious groups in the Roman Empire in the era from Nerva to the Severans (96-235 CE). Its sixteen chapters are written by leading scholars of classics, early Christianity, Jewish and Near Eastern history.