Satires of Rome - Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal

Provides a complete and socially and politically contextualised survey of Roman verse satire.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Horace; 2. Persius; 3. Juvenal.

About the author

Kirk Freudenburg is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and has previously taught at Kent State University. He has published widely on Latin literature and is the author of The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Princeton, 1993) (0691 031665). He is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire and Book II of Horace's Sermones for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

Summary

The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provided a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, and relates their achievements to the separate social and political environs of each writer's own age.

Product details

• Authors: Kirk Freudenburg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521006217
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00621-7
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies