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Routledge
432 Pages
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Routledge
432 Pages
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Routledge
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A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.
Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand the history of Latin's modern scholarly reception. Focusing on the linguistic difficulties and... Read more
Texts Ennius, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, Juvenal. Commentary Ennius, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, Juvenal. Critical Anthology The Roman Genre of Satire and Its Beginnings Michael Coffey. Roman Satirists and Literary Criticism W.S. Anderson. The Programmatic Satire and the Method of Persius 1 John Bramble. Invective Against Women in Roman Satire Amy Richlin. The Masks of Satire Susanna Morton Braund Images of Sterility: The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire Paul Allen Miller
Biography
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness (Routledge 1994) and edited Latin Erotic Elegy (Routledge 2002). He is the editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association.
"All in all, the <I>Anthology<$>, with its ample selection of important poems, stimulating introduction, accessible commentary and thought-provoking essays, is probably the best teaching guide available for introducing Roman satire in a college Latin setting."
-Grigory Starikovsky, <I>The Classical Outlook<$> Vol 84
