The Cambridge Companion to Roman SatireKirk Freudenburg Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift. |
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... attack the vices of men in the manner of old comedy , the sort that Lucilius wrote , then Horace , then Persius . But in a former time a poetic work that consisted of a smattering of different poems was called satire , the sort that ...
... attack the vices of men in the manner of old comedy , the sort that Lucilius wrote , then Horace , then Persius . But in a former time a poetic work that consisted of a smattering of different poems was called satire , the sort that ...
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... attacking not Greeks per se , but Roman enthusiasms for all things Greek . These enthusiasms , he has the gods in heaven complain , found Romans wearing underwear from Lydia and racing to buy up all sorts of gorgeous , Greek luxuries ...
... attacking not Greeks per se , but Roman enthusiasms for all things Greek . These enthusiasms , he has the gods in heaven complain , found Romans wearing underwear from Lydia and racing to buy up all sorts of gorgeous , Greek luxuries ...
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... attack ... when at a later time ( in the early days of Horace ) this character Lucilianus became generalized to cover the conception of a Roman satura , there came into the definition and idea of satire a notion of vehement personal attack ...
... attack ... when at a later time ( in the early days of Horace ) this character Lucilianus became generalized to cover the conception of a Roman satura , there came into the definition and idea of satire a notion of vehement personal attack ...
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... attack against Jonson , and Jonson's playing Horace to Shakespeare's Lucilius . As Daniel Hooley demonstrates , such multi - layered tensions between the present and a growing plethora of Roman pasts ( Horace's , Jonson's , Dryden's ) ...
... attack against Jonson , and Jonson's playing Horace to Shakespeare's Lucilius . As Daniel Hooley demonstrates , such multi - layered tensions between the present and a growing plethora of Roman pasts ( Horace's , Jonson's , Dryden's ) ...
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... attack , tends to be momentary and easily fractured . For satirists always threaten , in an instant , to turn nasty and vindictive . Like uncouth dinner guests , mismatched to the rules of polite society , those who perform in this mode ...
... attack , tends to be momentary and easily fractured . For satirists always threaten , in an instant , to turn nasty and vindictive . Like uncouth dinner guests , mismatched to the rules of polite society , those who perform in this mode ...
Contents
Romes first satirists themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius | 33 |
The restless companion Horace Satires 1 and 2 | 48 |
Speaking from silence the Stoic paradoxes of Persius | 62 |
The poor mans feast Juvenal | 81 |
Citation and authority in Senecas Apocolocyntosis | 95 |
Late arrivals Julian and Boethius | 109 |
Epic allusion in Romance satire | 123 |
Sleeping with the enemy satire and philosophy | 146 |
Satire and the poet the body as selfreferential symbol | 207 |
The libidinal rhetoric of satire | 224 |
Roman satire in the sixteenth century | 243 |
Alluding to satire Rochester Dryden and others | 261 |
The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters | 284 |
The presence of Roman satire modern receptions and their interpretative implications | 299 |
a volume retrospect on Roman satires | 309 |
Key dates for the study of Roman satire | 319 |
The satiric maze Petronius satire and the novel | 160 |
Satire as aristocratic play | 177 |
Satire in a ritual context | 192 |
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