ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the effects of globalization inherent in the satirist's literary formulation and handling of food. For Juvenal, food serves a multi-dimensional purpose: like people and ideas, it is bound up in the networks of globalization that add or subtract meaning from the satirist's formulation of space, place, and identity. In Juvenal, similar forces of movement and mixing highlight similar anxieties not only about the identification of origins and place, but also the exercise and stability of the Roman institutions of the cena and concilium principis wherein the preparation, presentation, and consumption of food figure so significantly. The chapter expresses that how the lack of self-containment functions as a mirror of the unethical behavior of their patrons. Juvenal offers additional instances where the behavior of Domitian and his councilors has compromised Rome's geographic periphery.
