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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... kind , intellectual , technical , and bibliographical . He has been most patient with me , and gracious in providing help at every stage . Much of the work for this volume was done during my year as National Endowment for the Humanities ...
... kind , intellectual , technical , and bibliographical . He has been most patient with me , and gracious in providing help at every stage . Much of the work for this volume was done during my year as National Endowment for the Humanities ...
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... kind stand in sharp opposition to the Greek - inspired poems - for - hire of Ennius , Pacuvius , and their ilk . Much the same can be said for satire's problematic relationship to the " alien wisdom " of Greek philosophy . Roland Mayer ...
... kind stand in sharp opposition to the Greek - inspired poems - for - hire of Ennius , Pacuvius , and their ilk . Much the same can be said for satire's problematic relationship to the " alien wisdom " of Greek philosophy . Roland Mayer ...
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... kind , the key to his success ) . Horace , in turn , targets type - characters , unnamed fools , and persons of no particular account.20 Much closer to the bottom of the social ladder's acceptable range than to the top , Horace could ...
... kind , the key to his success ) . Horace , in turn , targets type - characters , unnamed fools , and persons of no particular account.20 Much closer to the bottom of the social ladder's acceptable range than to the top , Horace could ...
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... kind of big talk : Lucilius . But the odds of Horace's having his way with the genre are unfavorable , for the " improvements " he introduces to satire are all too easily read in reverse ( from aesthetics to socio - politics ) , as ...
... kind of big talk : Lucilius . But the odds of Horace's having his way with the genre are unfavorable , for the " improvements " he introduces to satire are all too easily read in reverse ( from aesthetics to socio - politics ) , as ...
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... kind of thing that Lucilius wrote . " It is only with Juvenal ( floruit ca. CE 100 - ca.130 ) that verse satire in Rome takes on the specific set of traits that would come to characterize the genre , and dominate so much conventional ...
... kind of thing that Lucilius wrote . " It is only with Juvenal ( floruit ca. CE 100 - ca.130 ) that verse satire in Rome takes on the specific set of traits that would come to characterize the genre , and dominate so much conventional ...
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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