Download or read book Roman Satire written by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.