The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

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ID19904262
AuthorsFrances Muecke, Emily Gowers, Andrea Cucchiarelli (0000-0003-1600-122X), Victoria Rimell, Ellen O’gorman (0000-0002-1611-6783), Joel Relihan, Catherine Connors, Roland Mayer, Thomas Habinek, Fritz Graf, Alessandro Barchiesi, Erik Gunderson (0000-0002-5186-2300), Colin Burrow (0000-0001-7548-2081), Dan Hooley (0000-0003-3323-0972), Charles Martindale, Duncan Kennedy, John Henderson (0000-0002-8598-5560)
EditorsKirk Freudenburg (0000-0001-6586-2988)
Year2005
Pages352
Publication date2005-05-12
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cambridge companion to Roman satire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol0521803594
OpenAlexW1490894720
Open LibraryOL22622788M
ISBN9780521803595
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDRISu-AsV_00C
LanguageEN
Citations received72

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

Art · Art history · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · History and criticism · in literature · Latin Satire · Rome · Satire · Satire, history and criticism · Satire, latin

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