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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... poet usually accounted Rome's first writer of satire . Best known to us as the author of the Annales , Rome's finest ... poetic enterprises Ennius modeled directly after Greek prece- dents . But in among his lesser - known efforts there ...
... poet usually accounted Rome's first writer of satire . Best known to us as the author of the Annales , Rome's finest ... poetic enterprises Ennius modeled directly after Greek prece- dents . But in among his lesser - known efforts there ...
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... poet , linked to satire as a frequent target , never as a writer of satires . Later scholars , such as Porphyrio in the second century and Diomedes in the fourth , are less reticent about Ennius ' role in the history of Roman satire ...
... poet , linked to satire as a frequent target , never as a writer of satires . Later scholars , such as Porphyrio in the second century and Diomedes in the fourth , are less reticent about Ennius ' role in the history of Roman satire ...
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... poetic work belonging to the Romans [ apud Romanos ] that now , at any rate , is written to abuse and to attack the vices of men in the manner of old comedy , the sort that Lucilius wrote , then Horace , then Persius . But in a former ...
... poetic work belonging to the Romans [ apud Romanos ] that now , at any rate , is written to abuse and to attack the vices of men in the manner of old comedy , the sort that Lucilius wrote , then Horace , then Persius . But in a former ...
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... poet's political world . Lucilius parodies and pokes fun at Rome's epic poets not just because they were famous , and wrote infelicitous lines of poetry from time to time , but because doing so establishes the speaker as an authentic ...
... poet's political world . Lucilius parodies and pokes fun at Rome's epic poets not just because they were famous , and wrote infelicitous lines of poetry from time to time , but because doing so establishes the speaker as an authentic ...
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... poets of Old Comedy on the Greek side ( again see Muecke ) , Horace avoids the political fray . He privatizes the ... poet " is palpable throughout his Sermones . But the clearest evidence of satire's hav- ing taken an abrupt turn ...
... poets of Old Comedy on the Greek side ( again see Muecke ) , Horace avoids the political fray . He privatizes the ... poet " is palpable throughout his Sermones . But the clearest evidence of satire's hav- ing taken an abrupt turn ...
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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