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J UV E NA L A ND T HE PO ET I C S O F A NO NY MI TY
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 passage, but
a startling, concerted effect of the
Satires
themselves. Scribbling dangerous
social critique under a historical maximum of paranoia, Juvenal harnessed this
dark energy by wiping all traces of himself
–
signature, body, biographical
snippets, social connections
–
from his reticent texts. This last major ambassador
of a once self-betraying genre took a radical leap into the anonymous.
Juvenal
and the Poetics of Anonymity
tracks this mystifying self-concealment over the
whole Juvenalian corpus. Through probing close readings, it shows how impor-
tant the missing author was to this satire, and how that absence echoes and
amplifies the neurotic politics of writing under surveillance.
TOM GEUE is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Latin at
the University of St Andrews, and has published widely on the literature of
imperial Rome. He is currently researching a book on anonymous Roman writ-
ing, which also considers how readers now and then cope with the power and
problem of anonymity.
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TOM GE U E
University of St Andrews, Scotland

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