Companion to Persius and Juvenal.

By: Braund, SusannaContributor(s): Osgood, JosiahMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World SerPublisher: Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (630 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118301128Subject(s): Juvenal -- Criticism and interpretation | Persius -- Criticism and interpretation | Verse satire, Latin -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to Persius and JuvenalDDC classification: 871.0109 LOC classification: PA6556 -- .C66 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
A COMPANION TO PERSIUS AND JUVENAL -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Persius and Juvenal as Satiric Successors -- I.1 Satirists and Poetic Succession -- I.2 Inheritance-Hunting: Satiric Succession in Practice -- I.3 Reading Persius and Juvenal -- PART I: Persius and Juvenal: Texts and Contexts -- 1 Satire in the Republic: From Lucilius to Horace -- 1.1 Grandmaster Lucilius -- 1.2 Horace on Lucilius -- 1.2.1 Horace, Satire 1.4 -- 1.2.2 Horace, Satire 1.10 -- 1.2.3 Horace, Satire 2.1 -- 1.3 Conclusion: Lucilian libertas into the Empire -- FURTHER READING -- 2 The Life and Times of Persius: The Neronian Literary "Renaissance" -- 2.1 Persius and Nero, the Literary Emperor -- 2.2 The Neronian Literary Triad: Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius -- 2.3 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Juvenalis Eques: A Dissident Voice from the Lower Tier of the Roman Elite -- 3.1 The "Real" Juvenal and His Persona -- 3.2 Equestrian Rank and Literary Men in the Age of Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian -- 3.3 Some Passages in Juvenal 3 -- 3.3.1 The frustrations of Umbricius as a marginal eques (126-72) -- 3.3.2 Does Umbricius have slaves still? (286-301 -- 1-20, 315-18 -- 164-67 -- 257-67) -- 3.3.3 What will and won't Umbricius do to succeed? A new reading of 29-40 -- 3.3.4 Umbricius redeems himself -- the implications of Juvenal's sphragis (315-22) -- 3.4 Juvenalis Eques: Two Last Thoughts -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius' Satires -- 4.1 The Space of the Book -- 4.2 The Story of the Book -- 4.3 The Stuff of the Book -- 4.4 The Sensations of the Book -- 4.5 The Seriousness of the Book -- FURTHER READING -- 5 Juvenal: The Idea of the Book -- 5.1 Introduction: How Many Juvenals? -- 5.2 Sex and Deviant Bodies in Rome.
5.3 The Women of Juvenal: Boar Hunters and Cross-Dressers -- 5.4 Concluding Thoughts -- FURTHER READING -- 6 Satiric Textures: Style, Meter, and Rhetoric -- 6.1 Persius -- 6.2 Juvenal -- FURTHER READING -- 7 Manuscripts of Juvenal and Persius -- 7.1 Juvenal -- 7.2 Juvenal: The Earliest Stages of Transmission -- 7.3 Making Sense of the Mess -- 7.4 The Prototype -- 7.5 Juvenal: 400-500 -- 7.6 Commentaries and Scholia -- 7.7 Juvenal 500-600 -- 7.7.1 Ant. = Mertens-Pack 2925. Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) 2559 -- 7.7.2 Bob. = Vat. lat. 5750, pp. 63-64, 77-78. LDAB 7374 -- 7.7.3 Ambr. = once at Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cimelio MS 2 (now lost). LDAB 7653 -- 7.8 Carolingian Renaissance -- 7.8.1 P-family -- 7.9 The Vulgate Text -- 7.10 Persius Manuscripts -- FURTHER READING -- PART II: Retrospectives: Persius and Juvenal as Successors -- 8 Venusina lucerna: Horace, Callimachus, and Imperial Satire -- 8.1 Identity and Saturnalia -- 8.2 A Half-Inventor, Many Authorities -- 8.3 Callimachean Dreams (from Horace to Persius) -- 8.4 Persius and Juvenal against Epic -- 8.5 Horatian Principles of Callimachean Satire -- 8.6 What Way? -- 8.7 Refuges, Corners and Arenas -- 8.8 Totus Noster Callimachus -- FURTHER READING -- 9 Self-Representation and Performativity -- 9.1 Identity and Status -- 9.2 Lucilian Individuality and Imperial Satire -- 9.3 Unreliable Voices -- 9.4 Interlocutors, Other Speakers, and Addressees -- 9.5 Imperial Satire's Performance "Script" -- 9.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- Acknowledgments -- 10 Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Persius and Stoicism -- 10.3 Persius on Poetry -- 10.4 Self-Shaping and Imaginary Interlocutors -- 10.5 Persius, Philosophy, and Food -- 10.6 The Degraded Body -- 10.7 The Stoics on Poetry -- 10.8 Juvenal and Philosophy -- FURTHER READING.
11 Persius, Juvenal, and Literary History after Horace -- 11.1 Persius' Prologue -- 11.2 Persius and Iambic Verse -- 11.3 Old Comedy -- 11.4 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 12 Imperial Satire and Rhetoric -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Satirist's Rhetoric of Definitions -- 12.3 The Satirist's Definitions of Rhetoric -- 12.4 Images of Rhetoric in Persius, Juvenal, and Their Predecessors -- 12.5 Rhetoric and the World in Juvenal's Fourth Satire -- 12.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 13 Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Approaches to the "Politics" of Latin Literature -- 13.3 The Politics of "Free Speech" in Persius and Juvenal -- 13.3.1 Persius -- 13.3.2 Juvenal -- 13.4 Invective -- 13.4.1 Juvenal -- 13.4.2 Persius -- 13.5 Conclusion: Invective and Politics -- FURTHER READING -- 14 Imperial Satire as Saturnalia -- 14.1 Bakhtin's Carnival -- 14.2 Saturnalia -- 14.3 Persius -- 14.4 Juvenal -- 14.5 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- PART III: Prospectives: The Successors of Persius and Juvenal -- 15 Imperial Satire Reiterated: Late Antiquity through the Twentieth Century -- 15.1 Late Antiquity into the Seventeenth Century -- 15.2 English Satire's Big Show: The Long Eighteenth Century -- 15.3 A Few Modern Receptions -- FURTHER READING -- 16 Persius, Juvenal, and the Transformation of Satire in Late Antiquity -- 16.1 Christian Satire -- 16.2 A Juvenalian Renaissance -- 16.3 Satire in Historiography -- 16.4 A New Theory of Satire -- FURTHER READING -- 17 Imperial Satire in the English Renaissance -- 17.1 Overview -- 17.2 Reputations -- 17.3 Wyatt -- 17.4 The Elizabethans and Jacobeans -- 17.5 The Translators -- FURTHER READING -- 18 Imperial Satire Theorized: Dryden's -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Dryden and Satire: From Practice to Theory (and Back) -- 18.3 Satirists as Successors.
18.4 Persius and Juvenal: Exemplars of Succession -- 18.5 Dryden's Ideals for Satire and the Ideals in Practice -- 18.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 19 Imperial Satire and the Scholars -- 19.1 The Earliest Commentaries -- 19.2 Will the Real Probus Please Stand Up? -- 19.3 Who Was Cornutus? -- 19.4 Persius and Juvenal at School -- 19.5 The Imperial Satirists in the Renaissance Canon and Classroom -- 19.6 Renaissance Scholarship on Juvenal and Persius -- 19.7 Pithou's Legacy -- 19.8 Interpolation Hunting -- 19.9 "Editors, For The Use Of . . . " -- 19.10 Examples -- 19.10.1 Example A: Sulpicia II -- 19.10.2 Example B: Scholium to Juvenal Satire 4.94 Acilius -- 19.10.3 Example C: Persius Scholium applied to contemporary events -- 19.10.4 Example D: Variant readings at Juvenal Satire 10.81 panem et circenses -- 19.10.5 Example E: Vahlen's defense of Juvenal 3.281 -- 19.10.6 Example F: Scholia to Juvenal Satire 6.153 mercator Iason -- FURTHER READING -- 20 School Texts of Persius and Juvenal -- 20.1 Preface -- 20.2 Introduction -- 20.3 Lives -- 20.4 Commentaries -- 20.4.1 Liberty -- 20.4.2 Sex -- 20.4.3 Orientalism -- 20.5 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 21 Revoicing Imperial Satire -- 21.1 Introduction: Translation, Ideology, and Rhetoric -- 21.2 The Martial of Margate: Juvenal as Nineteenth-Century Moralist -- 21.3 Translation in the Continuum of Explanation -- 21.4 Translation, Scholarship, and Cultural Ownership -- 21.5 Juvenal for Britain! (Frequently and in Several Sizes) -- 21.6 Reading (Gifford Through) Evans -- 21.7 Manly Vigour and Gentlemanly Decorum -- 21.8 Juvenal, Horace . . . and Persius -- 21.9 Ramsay's Loeb -- 21.10 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 22 Persius and Juvenal in the Media Age -- 22.1 The Satirists' Camera Eye -- 22.2 Persius: Fade to Dark -- 22.3 Juvenal: Themes and Variations -- 22.4 Juvenal's Rome.
22.5 From Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis to Gaius Arrius Nurus -- 22.6 A Scamp and a Shooting Star -- FURTHER READING -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
Summary: A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives.
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A COMPANION TO PERSIUS AND JUVENAL -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Persius and Juvenal as Satiric Successors -- I.1 Satirists and Poetic Succession -- I.2 Inheritance-Hunting: Satiric Succession in Practice -- I.3 Reading Persius and Juvenal -- PART I: Persius and Juvenal: Texts and Contexts -- 1 Satire in the Republic: From Lucilius to Horace -- 1.1 Grandmaster Lucilius -- 1.2 Horace on Lucilius -- 1.2.1 Horace, Satire 1.4 -- 1.2.2 Horace, Satire 1.10 -- 1.2.3 Horace, Satire 2.1 -- 1.3 Conclusion: Lucilian libertas into the Empire -- FURTHER READING -- 2 The Life and Times of Persius: The Neronian Literary "Renaissance" -- 2.1 Persius and Nero, the Literary Emperor -- 2.2 The Neronian Literary Triad: Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius -- 2.3 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Juvenalis Eques: A Dissident Voice from the Lower Tier of the Roman Elite -- 3.1 The "Real" Juvenal and His Persona -- 3.2 Equestrian Rank and Literary Men in the Age of Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian -- 3.3 Some Passages in Juvenal 3 -- 3.3.1 The frustrations of Umbricius as a marginal eques (126-72) -- 3.3.2 Does Umbricius have slaves still? (286-301 -- 1-20, 315-18 -- 164-67 -- 257-67) -- 3.3.3 What will and won't Umbricius do to succeed? A new reading of 29-40 -- 3.3.4 Umbricius redeems himself -- the implications of Juvenal's sphragis (315-22) -- 3.4 Juvenalis Eques: Two Last Thoughts -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius' Satires -- 4.1 The Space of the Book -- 4.2 The Story of the Book -- 4.3 The Stuff of the Book -- 4.4 The Sensations of the Book -- 4.5 The Seriousness of the Book -- FURTHER READING -- 5 Juvenal: The Idea of the Book -- 5.1 Introduction: How Many Juvenals? -- 5.2 Sex and Deviant Bodies in Rome.

5.3 The Women of Juvenal: Boar Hunters and Cross-Dressers -- 5.4 Concluding Thoughts -- FURTHER READING -- 6 Satiric Textures: Style, Meter, and Rhetoric -- 6.1 Persius -- 6.2 Juvenal -- FURTHER READING -- 7 Manuscripts of Juvenal and Persius -- 7.1 Juvenal -- 7.2 Juvenal: The Earliest Stages of Transmission -- 7.3 Making Sense of the Mess -- 7.4 The Prototype -- 7.5 Juvenal: 400-500 -- 7.6 Commentaries and Scholia -- 7.7 Juvenal 500-600 -- 7.7.1 Ant. = Mertens-Pack 2925. Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) 2559 -- 7.7.2 Bob. = Vat. lat. 5750, pp. 63-64, 77-78. LDAB 7374 -- 7.7.3 Ambr. = once at Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cimelio MS 2 (now lost). LDAB 7653 -- 7.8 Carolingian Renaissance -- 7.8.1 P-family -- 7.9 The Vulgate Text -- 7.10 Persius Manuscripts -- FURTHER READING -- PART II: Retrospectives: Persius and Juvenal as Successors -- 8 Venusina lucerna: Horace, Callimachus, and Imperial Satire -- 8.1 Identity and Saturnalia -- 8.2 A Half-Inventor, Many Authorities -- 8.3 Callimachean Dreams (from Horace to Persius) -- 8.4 Persius and Juvenal against Epic -- 8.5 Horatian Principles of Callimachean Satire -- 8.6 What Way? -- 8.7 Refuges, Corners and Arenas -- 8.8 Totus Noster Callimachus -- FURTHER READING -- 9 Self-Representation and Performativity -- 9.1 Identity and Status -- 9.2 Lucilian Individuality and Imperial Satire -- 9.3 Unreliable Voices -- 9.4 Interlocutors, Other Speakers, and Addressees -- 9.5 Imperial Satire's Performance "Script" -- 9.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- Acknowledgments -- 10 Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Persius and Stoicism -- 10.3 Persius on Poetry -- 10.4 Self-Shaping and Imaginary Interlocutors -- 10.5 Persius, Philosophy, and Food -- 10.6 The Degraded Body -- 10.7 The Stoics on Poetry -- 10.8 Juvenal and Philosophy -- FURTHER READING.

11 Persius, Juvenal, and Literary History after Horace -- 11.1 Persius' Prologue -- 11.2 Persius and Iambic Verse -- 11.3 Old Comedy -- 11.4 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 12 Imperial Satire and Rhetoric -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Satirist's Rhetoric of Definitions -- 12.3 The Satirist's Definitions of Rhetoric -- 12.4 Images of Rhetoric in Persius, Juvenal, and Their Predecessors -- 12.5 Rhetoric and the World in Juvenal's Fourth Satire -- 12.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 13 Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Approaches to the "Politics" of Latin Literature -- 13.3 The Politics of "Free Speech" in Persius and Juvenal -- 13.3.1 Persius -- 13.3.2 Juvenal -- 13.4 Invective -- 13.4.1 Juvenal -- 13.4.2 Persius -- 13.5 Conclusion: Invective and Politics -- FURTHER READING -- 14 Imperial Satire as Saturnalia -- 14.1 Bakhtin's Carnival -- 14.2 Saturnalia -- 14.3 Persius -- 14.4 Juvenal -- 14.5 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- PART III: Prospectives: The Successors of Persius and Juvenal -- 15 Imperial Satire Reiterated: Late Antiquity through the Twentieth Century -- 15.1 Late Antiquity into the Seventeenth Century -- 15.2 English Satire's Big Show: The Long Eighteenth Century -- 15.3 A Few Modern Receptions -- FURTHER READING -- 16 Persius, Juvenal, and the Transformation of Satire in Late Antiquity -- 16.1 Christian Satire -- 16.2 A Juvenalian Renaissance -- 16.3 Satire in Historiography -- 16.4 A New Theory of Satire -- FURTHER READING -- 17 Imperial Satire in the English Renaissance -- 17.1 Overview -- 17.2 Reputations -- 17.3 Wyatt -- 17.4 The Elizabethans and Jacobeans -- 17.5 The Translators -- FURTHER READING -- 18 Imperial Satire Theorized: Dryden's -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Dryden and Satire: From Practice to Theory (and Back) -- 18.3 Satirists as Successors.

18.4 Persius and Juvenal: Exemplars of Succession -- 18.5 Dryden's Ideals for Satire and the Ideals in Practice -- 18.6 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 19 Imperial Satire and the Scholars -- 19.1 The Earliest Commentaries -- 19.2 Will the Real Probus Please Stand Up? -- 19.3 Who Was Cornutus? -- 19.4 Persius and Juvenal at School -- 19.5 The Imperial Satirists in the Renaissance Canon and Classroom -- 19.6 Renaissance Scholarship on Juvenal and Persius -- 19.7 Pithou's Legacy -- 19.8 Interpolation Hunting -- 19.9 "Editors, For The Use Of . . . " -- 19.10 Examples -- 19.10.1 Example A: Sulpicia II -- 19.10.2 Example B: Scholium to Juvenal Satire 4.94 Acilius -- 19.10.3 Example C: Persius Scholium applied to contemporary events -- 19.10.4 Example D: Variant readings at Juvenal Satire 10.81 panem et circenses -- 19.10.5 Example E: Vahlen's defense of Juvenal 3.281 -- 19.10.6 Example F: Scholia to Juvenal Satire 6.153 mercator Iason -- FURTHER READING -- 20 School Texts of Persius and Juvenal -- 20.1 Preface -- 20.2 Introduction -- 20.3 Lives -- 20.4 Commentaries -- 20.4.1 Liberty -- 20.4.2 Sex -- 20.4.3 Orientalism -- 20.5 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 21 Revoicing Imperial Satire -- 21.1 Introduction: Translation, Ideology, and Rhetoric -- 21.2 The Martial of Margate: Juvenal as Nineteenth-Century Moralist -- 21.3 Translation in the Continuum of Explanation -- 21.4 Translation, Scholarship, and Cultural Ownership -- 21.5 Juvenal for Britain! (Frequently and in Several Sizes) -- 21.6 Reading (Gifford Through) Evans -- 21.7 Manly Vigour and Gentlemanly Decorum -- 21.8 Juvenal, Horace . . . and Persius -- 21.9 Ramsay's Loeb -- 21.10 Conclusion -- FURTHER READING -- 22 Persius and Juvenal in the Media Age -- 22.1 The Satirists' Camera Eye -- 22.2 Persius: Fade to Dark -- 22.3 Juvenal: Themes and Variations -- 22.4 Juvenal's Rome.

22.5 From Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis to Gaius Arrius Nurus -- 22.6 A Scamp and a Shooting Star -- FURTHER READING -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives.

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