• The AJP Best Article Prize for 2020 has been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to James Uden Boston University
• William M. Breichner, Journals Publisher

for his contribution to scholarship in "The Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome," AJP 141.4 (Winter 2020): 575–601.

In this article Uden explores the grammatici of the Imperial period and their relationship to satire as portrayed in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. As school teachers, scholars, and intellectuals on the fringes of society (many were born into slavery and/or were outsiders to Rome), the grammatici occupy a paradoxical position in relation to the literature they oversee, emerging as both cultural insiders and sub-elite targets of mockery. Yet Uden also shows how these grammatici adopt the masks and strategies of satirical discourse for themselves, by authoring attacks on others as well as cultivating abject and isolated personas in their own self-presentation. Through a careful reading of the fragments and anecdotes of the grammatici recorded by Suetonius in the DGR (at one point examined in relation to Juvenal Satire 7), Uden asks us to rethink our understanding of the genre of hexametric satura by including those critics who claim a stake on its margins.

In their position as mocking misfits, the grammatici can be understood as doubles or "photo-negatives" for the satirical poets. They appear in Suetonius' record as figures who openly admit and even cultivate their status as social and economic outsiders. Uden draws illuminating parallels with Edward Said's portrait of the modern scholar as a "voluntary exile" and Aaron Lecklider's "egghead" theory that charts the ambivalent and suspicious conception of the intellectual in the United States since the 1950s. In all three cases, the role of the critic is fashioned or self-fashioned as unsettling or dangerous to the status quo. In the case of the Roman grammatici, that subversion falls within a decidedly satirical framework.

By adopting an original and cohesive approach to a text that is often consulted only for reference, Uden builds a far-reaching argument about the relationship between hexametric satura and the wider, sub-elite field of critical and satirical speech, as he also offers a method of reading for and from the social and literary margins in Rome.

Judges for the Johns Hopkins University Press

Alex Purves (chair) Sonia Sabnis Alain Gowing

The Thirty-third Annual Best Article Prize of $1,000 will be awarded for the best article to appear in the Journal in 2021. The Press would like to thank the members of the committee for their time and effort. [End Page v]

• 该AJP最好的文章奖2020年已经呈现由美国杂志文献学的詹姆斯Uden的波士顿大学
• William M. Breichner，期刊出版商

表彰他在“讽刺的边缘：古罗马的苏埃托尼乌斯、萨图拉和学术局外人”中的学术贡献，AJP 141.4（2020 年冬季）：575-601。

在本文中，乌登探讨了帝国时期的语法及其与苏埃托尼乌斯 (Suetonius) 的De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus 中所描绘的讽刺的关系。作为处于社会边缘的学校教师、学者和知识分子（许多人出生于奴隶制和/或罗马外来者），语法在与他们所监督的文学相关的情况下处于矛盾的位置，既是文化圈内人又是亚精英的嘲讽目标。然而，乌登还展示了这些语法人如何为自己采用讽刺话语的面具和策略，通过创作对他人的攻击以及在他们自己的自我呈现中培养卑鄙和孤立的角色。通过仔细阅读书中的片段和轶事Suetonius 在DGR 中记录的语法（曾与 Juvenal Satire 7 相关），Uden 要求我们重新思考我们对六边形饱和流派的理解，包括那些声称对其边缘有股份的评论家。

在他们作为嘲讽格格不入的位置上，语法可以被理解为讽刺诗人的替身或“负片”。在苏埃托尼乌斯的记录中，他们是公开承认甚至培养自己作为社会和经济局外人地位的人物。乌登与爱德华·赛义德 (Edward Said) 将现代学者描绘为“自愿流放者”的肖像和亚伦·莱克利德 (Aaron Lecklider) 的“蛋头”理论相提并论，后者描绘了自 1950 年代以来美国知识分子的矛盾和可疑概念。在所有三种情况下，评论家的角色都被塑造或自我塑造为对现状的不安或危险。在 Roman grammatici的情况下，这种颠覆属于一个明显的讽刺框架。

通过对通常仅供参考的文本采用原创和连贯的方法，乌登就六边形饱和度与更广泛的、亚精英的批评和讽刺言论领域之间的关系建立了一个影响深远的论点，因为他还提供了一个罗马社会和文学边缘的阅读方法。

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Alex Purves (主席) Sonia Sabnis Alain Gowing

第三十三届年度最佳文章奖 1,000 美元将颁发给 2021 年出现在期刊上的最佳文章。新闻界感谢委员会成员的时间和努力。[结束页 v]