Satires of Rome : Threatening Poses From Lucilius to Juvenal

This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's 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. Freedom exists in performance in ancient Rome: it is a 'spoken' entity. As a result, satire's programmatic shifts, from 'open' to 'understated' to 'cryptic' and so on, can never be purely 'literary' and 'apolitical' in focus and/or tone. In Satires of Rome, Professor Freudenburg reads these shifts as the genre's unique way of staging and agonizing over a crisis in Roman identity. Satire's standard 'genre question' in this book becomes a question of the Roman self. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Key dates for the study of Roman verse satire......Page 14 Glossary of key names and technical terms......Page 17 Introduction......Page 21 THE DIATRIBE SATIRES (SERMONES 1.1 – 1.3): "YOU'RE NO LUCILIUS"......Page 35 SERMONES BOOK 1 AND THE PROBLEM OF GENRE......Page 43 REMEMBERED VOICES: SATIRE MADE NEW IN SERMONES 1.1......Page 47 THE SOCIAL POETICS OF HORATIAN LIBERTAS: SINCE WHEN IS "ENOUGH" A "FEAST"?......Page 64 HITTING SATIRE'S FINIS: ALONG FOR THE RIDE IN SERMONES 1-5......Page 71 DOGGED BY AMBITION: SERMONES 1.6 – 10......Page 78 BOOK 2 AND THE TOTALITARIAN SQUEEZE: NEW RULES FOR A NEW AGE......Page 91 PANEGYRIC BLUSTER AND ENNIUS' SCIPIO IN HORACE, SERMONES 2.1......Page 102 COMING TO TERMS WITH SCIPIO: THE NEW LOOK OF POST-ACTIAN SATIRE......Page 113 BIG FRIENDS AND BRAVADO IN SERMONES 2.1......Page 120 BOOK 2 AND THE HISSINGS OF COMPLIANCE......Page 128 NASIDIENUS' DINNER-PARTY: TOO MUCH OF NOT ENOUGH......Page 137 OF NARRATIVE AND COSMOGONY: PERSIUS AND THE INVENTION OF NERO......Page 145 THE PROLOGUE: TOP-DOWN AESTHETICS AND THE MAKING OF ONSELF......Page 154 FAKING IT IN NERO'S ORGASMATRON: PERSIUS 1 AND THE DEATH OF CRITICISM......Page 171 at laeua lacrimas muttoni absterget amica......Page 185 THE SATIRIST-PHYSICIAN AND HIS OUT-OF-JOINT WORLD......Page 193 SATIRE'S LEAN FEAST: FINDING A LOST "PILE" IN P.2......Page 203 TEACHING AND TAIL-WAGGING, CRITIQUE AS CRUTCH: P.4......Page 209 LEFT FOR BROKE: SATIRE AS LEGACY IN P.6......Page 215 A LOST VOICE FOUND: JUVENAL AND THE POETICS OF TOO MUCH, TOO LATE......Page 229 REMEMBERED MONSTERS: TIME WARP AND MARTYR TALES IN TRAJAN'S ROME......Page 235 GHAST-ASSAULT IN JUV.1......Page 254 THE POOR MAN'S LUCILIUS......Page 262 LIFE ON THE EDGE: FROM EXAGGERATION TO SELF-DEFAULT......Page 268 BEATING A DEAD FISH: THE EMPEROR-SATIRIST OF JUV.4......Page 278 SATIRES 3 AND 5: THE POOR MAN'S LUNCH OF UMBRICIUS AND TREBIUS......Page 284 Works Cited......Page 298 General index......Page 305 1. Horace. The Diatribe Satires (sermones 1.1-1.3): You're No Lucilius Sermones Book 1 And The Problem Of Genre. Remembered Voices: Satire Made New In Sermones 1.1. The Social Poetics Of Horatian Libertas: Since When Is Enough A Feast? Hitting Satire's Finis: Along For The Ride In Sermones 1.5. Dogged By Ambition: Sermones 1.6-10. Book 2 And The Totalitarian Squeeze: New Rules For A New Age. Panegyric Bluster And Ennius' Scipio In Horace, Sermones 2.1. Coming To Terms With Scipio: The New Look Of Post-actian Satire. Big Friends And Bravado In Sermones 2.1. Book 2 And The Hissings Of Compliance. Nasidienus' Dinner-party: Too Much Of Not Enough -- 2. Persius. Of Narrative And Cosmogony: Persius And The Invention Of Nero. The Prologue: Top-down Aesthetics And The Making Of Oneself. Faking It In Nero's Orgasmatron: Persius 1 And The Death Of Criticism. The Satirist-physician And His Out-of-joint World. Satire's Lean Feast: Finding A Lost Pile In P. 2. Teaching And Tail-wagging, Critique As Crutch: P. 4. Left For Broke: Satire As Legacy In P. 6 -- 3. Juvenal. A Lost Voice Found: Juvenal And The Poetics Of Too Much, Too Late. Rememberred Monsters: Time Warp And Martyr Tales In Trajan's Rome. Ghost-assault In Juv. 1. The Poor Man's Lucilius. Life On The Edge: From Exaggeration To Self-defeat. Beating A Dead Fish: The Emperor-satirist Of Juv. 4. Satires 3 And 5: The Poor Man's Lunch Of Umbricius And Trebius. Kirk Freudenburg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 278-284) And Index. Machine generated contents note: x Horace The diatribe satires (Sermones 1.1-1.3): "You're no Lucilius" Sermones book I and the problem of genre Remembered voices: satire made new in Sermones 1.i The social poetics of Horatian libertas: since when is "enough" a "feast"? Hitting satire'sfinis: along for the ride in Sermones 1.5 Dogged by ambition: Sermones 1.6-io Book 2 and the totalitarian squeeze: new rules for a New Age Panegyric bluster and Ennius' Scipio in Horace, Sermones 2.1 Coming to terms with Scipio: the new look of post-Actian satire Big friends and bravado in Sermones 2.1 Book 2 and the hissings of compliance Nasidienus' dinner-party: too much of not enough 2 Persius Of narrative and cosmogony: Persius and the invention of Nero The Prologue: top-down aesthetics and the making of oneself Faking it in Nero's orgasmatron: Persius i and the death of criticism The satirist-physician and his out-of-joint world Satire's lean feast: finding a lost "pile" in P. 2 Teaching and tail-wagging, critique as crutch: P. 4 Left for broke: satire as legacy in P. 6 3 Juvenal A lost voice found: Juvenal and the poetics of too much, too late vii Remembered monsters: time warp and martyr tales in Trajan's Rome Ghost-assault in Juv. I The poor man's Lucilius Life on the edge: from exaggeratin to self-defeat Beating a dead fish: the emperor-satirist of Juv. 4 Satires 3 ands: the poor man's lunch of Umbricius and Trebius List of works cited General index. The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we are made to sense, and see performed, the increasing pressure of imperial oversight in ancient Rome. The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, and relates their achievements to the separate social and political environs of each writer's own age