Ian Goh

Swansea University | SWAN · Department of History and Classics

The Asianist orator Hortensius Hortalus is a partial model for Horace's critique of Lucilius in his début collection Satires 1. Much mileage is derived from the metaphor of Lucilius as a "muddy river." The appearances of Hortensius, a wealthy lover of luxury and innovator in dining habits, in Varro's De Re Rustica 3, Cicero's Brutus (where, recentl...

JUVENAL AND THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT - (J.) Uden The Invisible Satirist. Juvenal and Second-Century Rome. Pp. xii + 260. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £65, US$87 (Paper, £22.99, US$35). ISBN: 978-0-19-938727-4 (978-0-19-088696-7 pbk). - Ian Goh

J. L. FERRISS-HILL, ROMAN SATIRE AND THE OLD COMIC TRADITION. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 302. isbn9781107081543. £62.00/US$95.00. - Ian Goh

The best-known fact about the interaction of the Republican Roman poet Gaius Lucilius ( c .180–103/102 b.c.e. ), the inventor of the genre of Roman verse satire, with the doctrine of Scepticism is probably a statement of Cicero: that Clitomachus the Academician dedicated a treatise to the poet (Cic. Luc . 102). Diogenes Laertius makes much of that...

This chapter treats the account of the courtroom activities-Q. Mucius Scaevola Augur defending himself when brought to trial for extortion in 119 BC by T. Albucius-in book 2 of Gaius Lucilius' satires as an example of forensic oratory in post-Gracchan Republican Rome. The fragments of Lucilius' verse record of the trial are considered in their hist...

This volume considers linguistic, cultural, and literary trends that fed into the creation of Roman satire in second-century BC Rome. Combining approaches drawn from linguistics, Roman history, and Latin literature, the chapters share a common purpose of attempting to assess how Lucilius’ satires functioned in the social environment in which they w...

ASPECTS OF VARIETY - W. Fitzgerald Variety. The Life of a Roman Concept. Pp. x + 243. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Cased, £38.50, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-226-29949-5. - Ian Goh

What’s riches to him That has made a great peacock With the pride of his eye? W. B. Yeats, “The Peacock” Gaius Lucilius, the subject of this volume, is often supposed to have condemned luxury, in his poetic pose as a censorious arbiter of true Roman morals. But Lucilian critique is complicated: his verse straddles the divide between the authority o...

It is well known that Ovid's Amores begin with a reference to Virgil's Aeneid in the very first word, arma (‘weapons’, Am. 1.1.1 = Verg. Aen. 1.1), which implies that the elegist had been composing epic before Cupid, by stealing a foot, apparently forced him to write elegy. In spite of this incapacitation at the hands of the love god, Ovid continue...

The hometown of the verse satirist Gaius Lucilius was Suessa Aurunca, on the border between Latium and Campania. This chapter investigates the remnants of Campania in this poet's surviving fragments and reception, mostly in Horace but also in Cicero and Juvenal. Horses, gladiators, pots, theater, and pronunciation are all Campanian aspects of the s...

ANOTHER SHORT INTRODUCTION - Allan ( W.)Classical Literature. A Very Short Introduction. Pp. xviii + 135, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Paper, £7.99, US$11.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-966545-7. - Volume 65 Issue 2 - Ian Keng Liang Goh

Recent readings of Fam. 12.16 have revealed that Trebonius' aim in writing to Cicero was the complicated result of anxieties over influence. I extend this complexity to Trebonius' citation of the satirist Lucilius and argue that Lucilius is mentioned for his literary status as well as libertas. Trebonius' satire was, in Lucilian vein, directed at t...

The Roman jurist and censor Lentulus Lupus garnered notoriety as Lucilius’ target in what has been preserved as his first book of satires. This paper sheds new light on the philosophical background to the trial of Lupus in the concilium deorum of Lucilius’ Book 1 by examining an earlier passage of Lucilius that criticises Lupus as a hanging judge (...