Juvenal and the poetics of anonymity / Tom Geue.
"The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing author figure is no mere casualty of time's pas...
Uniform Title: | Cambridge classical studies.
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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Physical Description: | xiii, 352 pages ; 23 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.