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...
The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commenta...
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.
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 sat...
