Please join us on Monday, April 15th from 11:30-1:00 in the Comparative Literature Library (Tisch 2021C), for a talk by Professor Ian Fielding on "The reception of Roman satire as a provocation to reception theory."

In this workshop, Ian Fielding will present material from the introduction to his monograph in progress, currently titled Roman satire, and the fall of Rome.

This book examines the intersecting receptions of the Roman satirist Juvenal in Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) and in Gibbon’s late Roman source texts.

The introduction addresses some methodological issues raised by this complex case of classical receptions, which spans different periods and genres.

It takes the interpretive direction Juvenal gives his audience at the end of his first satire—to read the past into the present, and the present into the past—as a provocation to think critically about how reception works, while attempting to find a suitably anachronic approach to the reception of this untimely satirist.

Please also RSVP if you plan to attend the event, and indicate if you would like to receive a pre-circulated paper in advance.

This event is part of the Contexts for Classics Works in Progress Series, and is co-sponsored by Contexts for Classics and the Departments of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature.