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Juvenal's scripta matrona: Elegiac Resonances in Satire 6

Juvenal's scripta matrona: Elegiac Resonances in Satire 6 <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achieved is via intertextual connections with Latin love elegy, and the paper offers a detailed discussion of several passages in which the wife is constructed as elegiac puella and her husband as elegiac lover.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Juvenal's scripta matrona: Elegiac Resonances in Satire 6

Mnemosyne , Volume 60 (4): 628 – Jan 1, 2007

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0026-7074
eISSN
1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852507X169582
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achieved is via intertextual connections with Latin love elegy, and the paper offers a detailed discussion of several passages in which the wife is constructed as elegiac puella and her husband as elegiac lover.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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MnemosyneBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: JUVENAL; ROMAN WOMEN; SATIRE

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