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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... seen from the comments of Porphyrio and Pseudacron ad Sermones 1.10.66 , where both claim that satire lacks a Greek precedent only in the sense that no Greek had written it in hexameter verse . Both scholiasts are quick to point out ...
... seen from the comments of Porphyrio and Pseudacron ad Sermones 1.10.66 , where both claim that satire lacks a Greek precedent only in the sense that no Greek had written it in hexameter verse . Both scholiasts are quick to point out ...
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... seen this . Lucilius is demonstrably no hater of all things Greek . Rather , he plays one from time to time , as he has to , to place himself at a healthy , critical distance from his society's philhellenic enthusiasms . His first ...
... seen this . Lucilius is demonstrably no hater of all things Greek . Rather , he plays one from time to time , as he has to , to place himself at a healthy , critical distance from his society's philhellenic enthusiasms . His first ...
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... seen not just in the poet's lack of political aggression , but in his use of his stylus's eraser end . Lucilius , Horace complains , never erased anything from his thoughts or from his page . But why should he ? His thoughts were his ...
... seen not just in the poet's lack of political aggression , but in his use of his stylus's eraser end . Lucilius , Horace complains , never erased anything from his thoughts or from his page . But why should he ? His thoughts were his ...
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... seen to run through the scholarship and , with a good bit of squinting , these lines can be shown to be heading , roughly , in the same direction ( see my last three pages below ) . 47 Porphyrio's introductory comments on Horace Epist ...
... seen to run through the scholarship and , with a good bit of squinting , these lines can be shown to be heading , roughly , in the same direction ( see my last three pages below ) . 47 Porphyrio's introductory comments on Horace Epist ...
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... seen , has always been tightly wound with questions of identity , and thus it has tended towards the production of extreme pro- nouncements about what is " ours " versus what is “ theirs . ” This happens still . Generally we see no need ...
... seen , has always been tightly wound with questions of identity , and thus it has tended towards the production of extreme pro- nouncements about what is " ours " versus what is “ theirs . ” This happens still . Generally we see no need ...
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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