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VII. Overview of the Genre

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This final section offers a brief overview of the development of the genre of Roman verse satire from its origins to Juvenal and beyond with an indication of its influence on later satire. Of course, with so much of the genre missing any overview can only be provisional. I refer not only to the fragmentary preservation of the Satires of Ennius and Lucilius but also to the non-survival of the Satires of Ennius’ nephew Pacuvius and, more importantly, of Turnus. Turnus was evidently a prominent satirist writing when Domitian was emperor. He is quite possibly one of those referred to obliquely by Quintilian in his praise of contemporary satirists and may have been a precursor to and influence upon Juvenal in adopting a declamatory mode for his satire. What other losses and absences there are from the genre of Roman verse satire can only be guessed at.

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New Surveys in the Classics , Volume 23: Roman Verse Satire , 1992 , pp. 56 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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Notes

1. On Turnus see Coffey (1979).

2. Quintilian I.O. 10.1.94, quoted above in Chapter II.

3. As shown above all by Fiske’s study (1920).

4. Thus Rudd (1976), pp. 54-83.

5. On Greek and Roman satire after Juvenal see Ramage, Sigsbee & Fredericks (1974), pp. 170-6.

6. On this phenomenon see Classen (1988).

7. Thus Ramage, Sigsbee & Fredericks (1974), pp. 175-6, naming Theodulf of Orléans (eighth-ninth century), Hugh Primas of Orléans and Walter of Chãtillon (twelfth century); for detailed analysis of these three medieval exponents of Latin satire see Witke (1970), pp. 168-266.

8. On the formal verse satire in English Renaissance writers and later see Randolph (1942).

9. For a brief survey of some Renaissance and modern satire see Ramage, Sigsbee & Fredericks (1974), pp. 176-83.