Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: meet anon; 2. Anonymity programmed; 3. The anatomy of anonymity: bodies and names; 4. Shrinking, slinking and sinking; 5. Consolation, isolation, indigestion; Conclusion: the anonymity of satire; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.

About the author

Tom Geue is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and has published widely on the literature of imperial Rome. He is currently researching a book on anonymous Roman writing, which also considers how readers now and then cope with the power and problem of anonymity.

Summary

Argues that the mysterious Roman satirist Juvenal actively worked to wipe all trace of the author from the text as a way of processing and publicising a dangerous political climate. Will interest scholars of the literature and history of imperial Rome and those working in authorship and anonymity studies.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Geue, Tom (University of St Andrews Geue
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108402859
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40285-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation