[Usyd_Classics_Events] Classics and Ancient History Online Seminar November 4th 2021 - Paul Roche

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends,

We are happy to invite you to our final Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA online research seminar for Semester 2, 2021.

November 4th at 4pm (AEDT, UTC/GMT +11) with

Paul Roche (University of Sydney)

“Satire from the margins: the periphery in Persius’ Satires.”

Abstract:
The poet Persius (34-62ce) left us a slender and idiosyncratic collection: a prologue and six short hexameter poems that stake a claim upon the satirical tradition of Lucilius and especially Horace. Persius’ style is dense and obscure, and the imagery of his poetry is often mutable, associative and evasive. Language, image and poetic persona work together to create a collection in which issues of morality, philosophy, taste, diction and rhetoric often overlap. In this paper I consider the way in which the voice and the identity of the speaker in these satires are decentralised. This position on the periphery is intrinsic to Persius’ satiric persona and it is related to satire’s dynamic of mocking elevated subjects from below. I first argue that the marginal position claimed by the poet—his poetic, aesthetic and intellectual alienation from society’s mainstream—is matched by a performed social isolation. This appears initially to be a consequence of a relatively lower-ranking social status, but it is gradually revealed that the speaker is an aristocrat, albeit one with limited power in society, whose chauvinism and conservative anxieties have placed him on society’s fringes. I then argue that a recurrent suite of images suggesting temporal displacement and interiority help constitute the world of the Satires, and that these same images abstract and reflect the speaker’s marginal position.


The Zoom meeting details for this seminar are:

Meeting URL:   https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89118010275?from=addon<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/VhPfCxngwOf1n35LXi8s7tZ?domain=t.e2ma.net>

Meeting ID:       891 1801 0275

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We look forward to seeing you as we bring our research community together for the final time for 2021!
For any further information or questions, please contact us at
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All best, Ben


DR BEN BROWN
Classics and Ancient History
School Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator (SOPHI)
Research Seminar Coordinator (CAH)
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
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