The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

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Kirk Freudenburg
Cambridge University Press, May 12, 2005 - History - 352 pages
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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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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Kirk Freudenburg is Professor of Latin and Chair of the Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois. His previous publications include The Walking Muse: Horace and the Theory of Satire (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

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