ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how certain trends in globalization studies inform an analysis of cultural formation and identity in Juvenal, with a close look at several uses of space and movement where Rome features as the physical and cultural locus of circulation in the empire. It analyzes the text to reveal the interactions that help shape Juvenal's cultural imagination, from the frequency of place names to people's relationship to them. The chapter focuses on how Juvenal's language of fluidity reveals a global sensibility, or ecumenical analytic, that views Rome not just as a self-contained, self-sufficient community, but one that is in increasing engagement with the world at large. Juvenal's world, furthermore, is characterized by interconnectivity by means of human mobility, commerce, and the exchange of goods and ideas. The chapter also explores how Juvenal conveys the construction of meaning through practices of symbolic representation and how the "growing awareness of cultural difference is a function of globalization".
