Juvenal, the<i>Phaedrus</i>, and the truth about Rome

Hardie, Alex

doi:10.1093/cq/48.1.234

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“…16 The Rome that this loser is leaving is already exilic; the place itself has been displaced. 17 We see this in microcosmic form in the satire's prologue, which famously stages a double displacement. The natural tufa has been 'upgraded' to marble (15), 18 and the Jews have bumped the Muses into their own exile (20).…”

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THE LOSER LEAVES (ROME'S LOSS): UMBRICIUS' WISHFUL EXILE IN JUVENAL, SATIRE 3

Geue

2015

The Class. Q.

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Juvenal's third satire is a privileged piece of verbal diarrhoea. As the longest satire in Juvenal's well-attended Book 1, as the centre of this book, and as the one Juvenalian jewel that sparkles ‘non-rhetorically’, it has always been the critics’ darling. Its protagonist, on the other hand, has not always been so popular. Recently, reader sympathy for old Umbricius (the poem's main speaker) has shifted to laughter in his face; the old sense of ‘pathetic’ has ceded to the new. One of the central strategies of the ‘Umbricius-as-caricature’ camp has been to point to the overtime worked by ‘mock-epic’ in this poem: Umbricius self-inflates to become another Aeneas, fleeing a crumbling Troy (Rome). But an oppositio is wedged in imitando. Umbricius makes his lengthy verbal preparations to depart from Rome for Cumae; Aeneas had come to Rome through Cumae. Umbricius withdraws to set up shop in the meagre countryside; Aeneas had escaped to cap his exile teleologically with the (pre-foundation of the) Greatest City That Will Ever Be. Still, Virgil's paradigm tale of displacement, drift and re-establishment underlies Umbricius' self-definition as an exile. Indeed exile, with a large and ever-increasing stock of mythical and historical examples, was a situation ripe for self-mythologizing. Umbricius stands in Aeneas' shadow then, standing it on its head. His recession also makes him into a Iustitia/Dikē figure, the final trace of the golden age, off to alloy himself elsewhere. In his mind, exile is rationalized by distinguished past examples; in ours, we laugh at how disparate example and man really are. That side of Umbricius has been done to death; or at least, for present purposes, to exile.

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THE LOSER LEAVES (ROME'S LOSS): UMBRICIUS' WISHFUL EXILE IN JUVENAL, SATIRE 3

Geue

2015

The Class. Q.

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“…7See also Hardie (1998) on Juvenal 3 and 9 as pseudo-Platonic dialogues, and Ehrhardt (2014) on poem 15 as a metageneric commentary about the relationship of Juvenalian satire to Ovid, with specific reference to the (pseudo-)philosophic treatment of Pythagoras and his philosophy in both Juvenal 15 and Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.…”

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TROUBLE AT SEA IN JUVENAL 12, PERSIUS 6 AND THE PROEM TO LUCRETIUS,DE RERUM NATURA2

Gellar-Goad

2018

Camb. class. j.

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This paper argues that the shipwreck scene in Juvenal 12 should be read as another exploration of the satiric ‘sketch’ offered in the proem to Lucretius,De rerum natura2: a thematic response to and exploration of the scene of troubles at sea in the Lucretian proem. The beleaguered sea-merchant Catullus should not have gone sailing at all – but he responds to trouble as an Epicurean would recommend. Juvenal 12 displays Epicurean conceptions of friendship and sacrifice, and an allusion to a storm scene in Persius 6 (itself intertextually connected to Lucretius’ proem) confirms the satiric importance of Lucretius in Juvenal's passage.

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A DITHYRAMB FOR AUGUSTUS: HORACE,ODES4.2

Hardie¹

2015

The Class. Q.

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Odes4.2 ostensibly looks forward to two public events lying at some indeterminate point in the future, Augustus' return from campaign in Gaul, and a triumph over the Sygambri. The celebrations anticipated for these occasions frame the second half of the ode; but they do not supply its dramatic setting or timing, and the latter is evidently associated with the period following Augustus' departure for Gaul in summer 16b.c., or at any rate with a time when the Sygambri were felt still to present an armed threat. The dramatic date need not however be identical with the time of writing, and it should not be assumed thatOdes4.2 was composed in 16. Indeed, as will be seen (below, Section 6), it is most likely to be the retrospective product of a later period, around the time of Augustus' eventual return in July 13. On this view, the poem does not look forward to future events, but back to the time of Augustus' departure.

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Juvenal, thePhaedrus, and the truth about Rome

Cited by 10 publications

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THE LOSER LEAVES (ROME'S LOSS): UMBRICIUS' WISHFUL EXILE IN JUVENAL, SATIRE 3

THE LOSER LEAVES (ROME'S LOSS): UMBRICIUS' WISHFUL EXILE IN JUVENAL, SATIRE 3

TROUBLE AT SEA IN JUVENAL 12, PERSIUS 6 AND THE PROEM TO LUCRETIUS,DE RERUM NATURA2

A DITHYRAMB FOR AUGUSTUS: HORACE,ODES4.2

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