There and Back Again: Inverting the Virgilian Career in Juvenal's Third Satire
By James Taylor
Recent scholarship on Juvenal’s third satire has aptly demonstrated that any straightforward and earnest reading of Umbricius has to be supplemented by an appreciation of the ironies inherent in his presentation (Fruelund Jensen 1986; Braund 1996 233–6; Hardie 1998 247–51; Baines 2003 235–7).