Food and Fictionalization in Juvenal's Eleventh Satire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9674380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evan J Armacost (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-86 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/clw.2019.0078 |
| OpenAlex | W2990428349 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article presents a novel analysis of Juvenal's comparatively understudied Satire 11. While many scholars have noted the surface distinctions between the courses to be served at a home-grown dinner and the glamorous meals of the Roman elite, few have noted the grandiose allusions to myth and history that decorate the dishes. Superlative adjectives, rare words, and Eastern influences all turn the speaker's offer on its head to perplexing effect. I argue that by consistently undermining the plausibility of the speaker's professions Juvenal sets up the speaker as a moralist only to knock him down as a fraud
Art · Eleventh · Elite · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Superlative · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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