Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and indexes.
Introduction. Generalizing about juvenal ; Satire and affect ; Satiric emotions as subjects and tools ; Themes in Roman satire studies ; How to do things with feelings -- Anger games. The indignant performer ; The contexts of juvenalian anger ; The rhetoric students at work ; Histories of anger ; Suppression, contestation ; compensation ; Anger between friends -- Monstrous misogyny and the end of anger. Bringing it all back home ; Farrago and Phantasia ; A look in the mirror ; Passing on the burden -- Change, decline, and the progress of satire. The Janus view ; Anger without eloquence ; Ante Ora Parentum ; Sermo and sirens -- Considering tranquility. Democritus on display ; Beyond laughter ; Democritus in Rome? ; Demolition and reinvention ; The Senecan model ; The satirist behind closed doors ; Outside-in satire ; Reclaiming a legacy -- The Praegrandis Senex. Rethinking the grand narrative ; The satiric Senex and the emotional plot ; Old men and Sermo ; Nestor Redivivus ; Not your father's Ira ; On reading the end, or "you and what army?" -- Conclusion.