The Arena of Satire: Juvenal's Search for Rome

369 Pages·2016·3.277 MB·English

by  David H. J. Larmour

The Arena of Satire
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
series editor
Ellen Greene, University of Oklahoma
advisory board
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Carolyn J. Dewald, Bard College
Elaine Fantham, Ontario
Nancy Felson, Athens, Georgia
Helene P. Foley, Barnard College
Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University
The Arena of Satire
Juvenal’s Search for Rome
DAVID H. J. LARMOUR
university of oklahoma press : norman
Paragraphs from the introduction were previously published in The Sites of Rome:
Time Space Memory, edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer
(New York: Oxford, 2007).
Some paragraphs from chapter 1 were previously published in David H. J. Larmour,
“The Incurable Wound of Telephus: Noise, Speech and Silence in Juvenal’s Satire 1,”
Intertexts 8 (2004): 55–76; and David H. J. Larmour, “Tracing Furrows
in the Horatian Dust: Echoes of Horace’s Epistles in Juvenal 1,”
Illinois Classical Studies 35–36 (2010–2011): 155–73.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Larmour, David H. J. (David Henry James), 1959– author.
The arena of satire : Juvenal’s search for Rome / David H. J. Larmour.
pages cm — (Oklahoma series in classical culture ; volume 52)
ISBN 978-0-8061-5156-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Juvenal— Criticism and interpretation. 2. Satire, Latin— History and criticism.
I. Title. II. Series: Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 52.
PA6448.L36 2016
871'.01— dc23
2015023991
The Arena of Satire: Juvenal’s Search for Rome is Volume 52 in the Oklahoma Series in
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To Brian Scott, who fi rst taught me the pleasures of reading Juvenal,
and to Allen Miller, interlocutor satiricus praecellens,
who has nourished them for over two de cades.

Contents
List of Illustrations, ix
Ac know ledg ments, xi
Introduction: The Search for Rome, 3
1 Satires from the Edge, 54
2 Beyond the Pale, 105
3 The Arena of Satire, 163
4 Melting Down the House, 231
Conclusion: The Plague of Satire, 295
Bibliography, 321
Index, 343

Illustrations
Map of Rome, 19
Porta Capena and Circus Maximus, 24
Grove of Egeria, 28
Circus Maximus and Palatine Hill, 76
Temple of Mars Ultor, 82
Colosseum, 88
Aemilian Bridge (Ponte Rotto), 110
Ludus Magnus, near the Colosseum, 150
Colosseum, 169
Phersu, Tomb of the Augurs, 208
Lenin Relocated, Narva, Estonia, 268
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