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WRITING DOWN ROME
SATIRE, COMEDY AND OTHER OFFENCES IN LATIN POETRY |
| By: |
John Henderson |
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Hardback |
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£117.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198150776 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198150770 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 1998 |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
In a series of controversial essays, this text examines the Roman penchant for denigration and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. The text shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure. |
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In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. Comedy in Republican Rome radically transformed both itself and the culture from which it sprang: in Poenulus, Plautus laughed at Roman depreciation of Carthage; in Adelphoe, Terence turned on his audience in provocation. The comic Roman poets played with self-mockery: in Eclogue III, Virgil tests his audience's security in judging peasant unpleasantness; in Odes III.22, Horace sends up his own pious rusticity down on the farm. In the second half of the book, Roman verse satire is the subject: the genre of male bragging mocks its own masculine aggression. The great Latin satirists make fun of making fun: Horace, Satires I.9, shows up the politics of humour, unmanned by his own good manners; Persius nails his own weaknesses in fortifying himself against the world; Juvenal, Satire 1, loathes the literary scene he bids to dominate. The book shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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