Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Vol 45 (2000)
Article Abstract
Juvenal's Third Satire: Umbricius' Rome, Vergil's Troy
Gregory A. Staley
Umbricius presents his departure from Rome in Juvenal's Third Satire
as a reprise of Aeneas' flight from Troy, thereby embodying Juvenal's
conception of the satirist as the new epic hero. Juvenal is both "confused"
and "embarrassed" about Umbricius, however, for he reveals the
tensions and inconsistencies in this satiric persona.
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