Satires of Rome : Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511154966Subject(s): Verse satire, Latin--History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Satires of Rome : Threatening Poses from Lucilius to JuvenalDDC classification: 871.01 LOC classification: PA6056 .F74 2001Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 -- General index.
Provides a complete and socially and politically contextualised survey of Roman verse satire.
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