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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... Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters ( 2004 ) , The Roman Gardening Book ( 2004 ) , Aesop's Human Zoo : Fables from Phaedrus ( 2004 ) , Pliny's Statue ( 2002 ) , Fighting for Rome ( 1998 ) . DAN HOOLEY is Chair of Classics at the ...
... Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters ( 2004 ) , The Roman Gardening Book ( 2004 ) , Aesop's Human Zoo : Fables from Phaedrus ( 2004 ) , Pliny's Statue ( 2002 ) , Fighting for Rome ( 1998 ) . DAN HOOLEY is Chair of Classics at the ...
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... moral conscience and self - control . We do that . And yet with him we relish the act of repudiating them - Roman satirists do not just refer to bad behavior , they leer at it , and wallow in it . Watching the satirist watch takes us ...
... moral conscience and self - control . We do that . And yet with him we relish the act of repudiating them - Roman satirists do not just refer to bad behavior , they leer at it , and wallow in it . Watching the satirist watch takes us ...
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... morally respectable and self - assured . Conservative , often to the point of being pig - headed , the satirist strays ... moral slashing with it , or falls on it as the butt of his own joke , is the question he leaves us to ponder by ...
... morally respectable and self - assured . Conservative , often to the point of being pig - headed , the satirist strays ... moral slashing with it , or falls on it as the butt of his own joke , is the question he leaves us to ponder by ...
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... moral purpose , and at last developed into one of Juvenal's most striking descriptions , sometimes into a whole satire . Thus , satire 3 , with its main theme : quid Romae faciam ? mentiri nescio , is essentially an elaboration of ...
... moral purpose , and at last developed into one of Juvenal's most striking descriptions , sometimes into a whole satire . Thus , satire 3 , with its main theme : quid Romae faciam ? mentiri nescio , is essentially an elaboration of ...
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... moral authority from the lead character's first per- son narrative . Making Petronius a moralist renders him , in turn , a satirist , and the placement problem is solved . But this is to let the tail wag the dog , and it is to put ...
... moral authority from the lead character's first per- son narrative . Making Petronius a moralist renders him , in turn , a satirist , and the placement problem is solved . But this is to let the tail wag the dog , and it is to put ...
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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