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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... Verse and Literary Tradition in the Satyricon ( 1998 ) . She has pub- lished articles on Roman epic , Roman comedy , and the ancient novel , and her current research focuses on representations of nature and geography in literary texts ...
... Verse and Literary Tradition in the Satyricon ( 1998 ) . She has pub- lished articles on Roman epic , Roman comedy , and the ancient novel , and her current research focuses on representations of nature and geography in literary texts ...
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... verse . Both scholiasts are quick to point out that Roman satire's hexameter scheme is itself a Greek metrical invention . 3 Quintilian ranks Ennius among Rome's best writers of epic at Inst . 10.1.88 . His tragedies do not make ...
... verse . Both scholiasts are quick to point out that Roman satire's hexameter scheme is itself a Greek metrical invention . 3 Quintilian ranks Ennius among Rome's best writers of epic at Inst . 10.1.88 . His tragedies do not make ...
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... verse ) suggests that they have far more in common with collections of Hellenistic occasional poems , such as Posidippus ' grab- bag of epigrams known as Soros , " The Pile , " or Ennius ' own Hedyphagetica , " Delicatessen , " than ...
... verse ) suggests that they have far more in common with collections of Hellenistic occasional poems , such as Posidippus ' grab- bag of epigrams known as Soros , " The Pile , " or Ennius ' own Hedyphagetica , " Delicatessen , " than ...
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... verse satirists are unusually expres- sive when it comes to laying out the genealogies of their works . They do this by inviting us to look into their bookbags to see what they have been reading . This is to put the satirist's legendary ...
... verse satirists are unusually expres- sive when it comes to laying out the genealogies of their works . They do this by inviting us to look into their bookbags to see what they have been reading . This is to put the satirist's legendary ...
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... verses , etc. ? Martial gets no chapter of his own in this volume , but Petronius does . Can that possibly be right ? Rather than address the question head on , I will simply suggest that this is the very problem that the satirists ...
... verses , etc. ? Martial gets no chapter of his own in this volume , but Petronius does . Can that possibly be right ? Rather than address the question head on , I will simply suggest that this is the very problem that the satirists ...
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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