La VRBS y el espacio del imperio en marcial y juvenal

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The space of the Vrbs provides the scenario of the works of Martial and Juvenal: the life they observed there served as inspiration. Martial describes Rome in such a way that we can walk through its streets. Juvenal, in contrast, is more interested in the human and moral landscape than in the physical one. But the Vrbs is also the cosmopolis, the meeting place of travellers and immigrants from all over. The mobility between the hub and the periphery works in both directions, and is represented thus in these two authors. Whereas Martial sees advantages in the Empire because his books and everlasting fame are disseminated throughout it, for Juvenal the imperial space is almost always a source of anxiety and corruption, because he sees it as the source of immigrants who come to socially displace Romans, as well as the source of the luxury that corrupts them.