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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... discussion of satire's best practitioners and habits at Institutes 10.1.93 Quintilian must first dispute the rankings of certain critics who , still in his own day , stubbornly maintained ( he is annoyed with them ) that Lucilius was ...
... discussion of satire's best practitioners and habits at Institutes 10.1.93 Quintilian must first dispute the rankings of certain critics who , still in his own day , stubbornly maintained ( he is annoyed with them ) that Lucilius was ...
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... discussion . But it is also a necessary means of helping us place their works in reference to all the varied traditions that satire includes . For as the ancient lanx satura ( " heaped plate " ) metaphor suggests , satire is less a ...
... discussion . But it is also a necessary means of helping us place their works in reference to all the varied traditions that satire includes . For as the ancient lanx satura ( " heaped plate " ) metaphor suggests , satire is less a ...
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... discussion of specific points of contact , see especially Colton ( 1991 ) . A more manageable , general study of the same topic is Anderson ( 1970 ) 1–34 . In addition , see Freudenburg ( forthcoming ) in Rethymnon Classical Studies vol ...
... discussion of specific points of contact , see especially Colton ( 1991 ) . A more manageable , general study of the same topic is Anderson ( 1970 ) 1–34 . In addition , see Freudenburg ( forthcoming ) in Rethymnon Classical Studies vol ...
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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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