This volume, from an innovative scholar of Latin Literature and Greek Old Comedy, distills the modern corpus of scholarship on Roman Satire, presenting the genre in particular through the themes of literary ambition, self-fashioning, and poetic afterlife.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Satiric Succession -- 3 Sermo and Satura -- 4 Seeing Other Genres in Roman Satire -- 5 Persona-Theory -- 6 Self-referentiality/Metapoetics -- 7 The Afterlife of Roman Satire -- Bibliography -- Index.

How do you insert yourself into an artistic canon? How do you establish yourself as a worthy successor to your predecessors while making your own mark on a genre? How do you police a genre’s boundaries to keep out the unwanted? With particular attention to authorial and national identity, artistic self-definition, and literary reception, this volume shows how four ancient Latin poets—Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal—asked and answered these questions between the second century BCE and the second century CE as they invented and reinvented the genre of Roman verse Satire.

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