After emphasising the difference in genre of these two authors to the rest of the classical corpus and the importance of
their lower-class subject matter to our overall understanding of the period, the
paper goes on to analyse the character of Trimalchio in the "Satyricon", the world-view of the text and the relation of the satire to Nero himself. On Juvenal, the paper discusses the racism and indignation of the poet, and his perceived breakdown of the traditional client-patron dynamic.