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Satires of Rome : threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
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The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, an...
The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, and relates their achievements to the separate social and political environs of each writer's own age.
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- Creator
- Kirk Freudenburg
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- EBSCO ebooks
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780511154966, 9780511612985, 052100621X, 9780521006217, 0511612982, 9780511043802, 0521803578, 0511043805, 9780511041587, 9781280433306, 0511041586, 0511154968, 9780521803571, 1280433302
- OCLC
- ocm56319589
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index.
- Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Key dates for the study of Roman verse satire -- Glossary of key names and technical terms -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Horace -- THE DIATRIBE SATIRES (SERMONES 1.1 ... 1.3): "YOU'RE NO LUCILIUS" -- SERMONES BOOK 1 AND THE PROBLEM OF GENRE -- REMEMBERED VOICES: SATIRE MADE NEW IN SERMONES 1.1 -- THE SOCIAL POETICS OF HORATIAN LIBERTAS: SINCE WHEN IS "ENOUGH" A "FEAST"? -- HITTING SATIRE'S FINIS: ALONG FOR THE RIDE IN SERMONES 1-5 -- DOGGED BY AMBITION: SERMONES 1.6 ... 10 -- BOOK 2 AND THE TOTALITARIAN SQUEEZE: NEW RULES FOR A NEW AGE -- PANEGYRIC BLUSTER AND ENNIUS' SCIPIO IN HORACE, SERMONES 2.1 -- COMING TO TERMS WITH SCIPIO: THE NEW LOOK OF POST-ACTIAN SATIRE -- BIG FRIENDS AND BRAVADO IN SERMONES 2.1 -- BOOK 2 AND THE HISSINGS OF COMPLIANCE -- NASIDIENUS' DINNER-PARTY: TOO MUCH OF NOT ENOUGH -- CHAPTER 2 Persius -- OF NARRATIVE AND COSMOGONY: PERSIUS AND THE INVENTION OF NERO -- THE PROLOGUE: TOP-DOWN AESTHETICS AND THE MAKING OF ONSELF -- FAKING IT IN NERO'S ORGASMATRON: PERSIUS 1 AND THE DEATH OF CRITICISM -- at laeua lacrimas muttoni absterget amica -- THE SATIRIST-PHYSICIAN AND HIS OUT-OF-JOINT WORLD -- SATIRE'S LEAN FEAST: FINDING A LOST "PILE" IN P.2 -- TEACHING AND TAIL-WAGGING, CRITIQUE AS CRUTCH: P.4 -- LEFT FOR BROKE: SATIRE AS LEGACY IN P.6 -- CHAPTER 3 Juvenal -- A LOST VOICE FOUND: JUVENAL AND THE POETICS OF TOO MUCH, TOO LATE -- REMEMBERED MONSTERS: TIME WARP AND MARTYR TALES IN TRAJAN'S ROME -- GHAST-ASSAULT IN JUV.1 -- THE POOR MAN'S LUCILIUS -- LIFE ON THE EDGE: FROM EXAGGERATION TO SELF-DEFAULT -- BEATING A DEAD FISH: THE EMPEROR-SATIRIST OF JUV.4 -- SATIRES 3 AND 5: THE POOR MAN'S LUNCH OF UMBRICIUS AND TREBIUS -- Works Cited