Figuring out Roman Nobility

Henderson shows how Juvenal's eighth Satire makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process reveals the ideas and practices of aristocratic culture - the display of genealogies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the culture of exemplary legends. Virgil and Horace are Juvenal's prize scalps in this spoof of the Roman fame machine. Designed for newcomers to Roman satire with notes at a more advanced level. Greece & Rome 's reviewer wrote that 'hardened academics should check it out, for this is sustained literary and cultural criticism from one of the cleverist classicists currently active'.