Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Key dates for the study of Roman verse satire
  • Glossary of key names and technical terms
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Horace
  • THE DIATRIBE SATIRES (SERMONES 1.1 ... 1.3): "YOU'RE NO LUCILIUS"
  • SERMONES BOOK 1 AND THE PROBLEM OF GENRE
  • REMEMBERED VOICES: SATIRE MADE NEW IN SERMONES 1.1
  • THE SOCIAL POETICS OF HORATIAN LIBERTAS: SINCE WHEN IS "ENOUGH" A "FEAST"?
  • HITTING SATIRE'S FINIS: ALONG FOR THE RIDE IN SERMONES 1-5
  • DOGGED BY AMBITION: SERMONES 1.6 ... 10
  • BOOK 2 AND THE TOTALITARIAN SQUEEZE: NEW RULES FOR A NEW AGE
  • PANEGYRIC BLUSTER AND ENNIUS' SCIPIO IN HORACE, SERMONES 2.1
  • COMING TO TERMS WITH SCIPIO: THE NEW LOOK OF POST-ACTIAN SATIRE
  • BIG FRIENDS AND BRAVADO IN SERMONES 2.1
  • BOOK 2 AND THE HISSINGS OF COMPLIANCE
  • NASIDIENUS' DINNER-PARTY: TOO MUCH OF NOT ENOUGH
  • CHAPTER 2 Persius
  • OF NARRATIVE AND COSMOGONY: PERSIUS AND THE INVENTION OF NERO
  • THE PROLOGUE: TOP-DOWN AESTHETICS AND THE MAKING OF ONSELF
  • FAKING IT IN NERO'S ORGASMATRON: PERSIUS 1 AND THE DEATH OF CRITICISM
  • at laeua lacrimas muttoni absterget amica
  • THE SATIRIST-PHYSICIAN AND HIS OUT-OF-JOINT WORLD
  • SATIRE'S LEAN FEAST: FINDING A LOST "PILE" IN P.2
  • TEACHING AND TAIL-WAGGING, CRITIQUE AS CRUTCH: P.4
  • LEFT FOR BROKE: SATIRE AS LEGACY IN P.6
  • CHAPTER 3 Juvenal
  • A LOST VOICE FOUND: JUVENAL AND THE POETICS OF TOO MUCH, TOO LATE
  • REMEMBERED MONSTERS: TIME WARP AND MARTYR TALES IN TRAJAN'S ROME
  • GHAST-ASSAULT IN JUV.1
  • THE POOR MAN'S LUCILIUS
  • LIFE ON THE EDGE: FROM EXAGGERATION TO SELF-DEFAULT
  • BEATING A DEAD FISH: THE EMPEROR-SATIRIST OF JUV.4
  • SATIRES 3 AND 5: THE POOR MAN'S LUNCH OF UMBRICIUS AND TREBIUS
  • Works Cited.