Woods, Heather A.2013-02-142013-02-142012-12https://hdl.handle.net/11299/144349University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2012. Major: Classical and Near Eastern Studies. Advisor: Christopher Nappa. 1 computer file (PDF); iv, 157 pages.Legacy hunting (or captatio) is the practice of insinuating oneself into the will of a wealthy (usually childless) individual through various types of attention (including flattery, social deference, political, legal, or moral support, and even sexual favors). This dissertation examines the three most substantial legacy hunting narratives in Latin literature (Horace Sermones 2.5, the end of Petronius' Satyrica, and Juvenal Satire 12) to discover the metaliterary meaning of captatio in these satiric texts through the transformation of metaphors used to describe this practice.en-USLanguageLiterature and linguisticsCaptatioSatireHoracePetronius ArbiterThesis or Dissertation