Roman Verse Satires - Spleen and Ideal

The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

About the author

John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His many publications include Juvenal: Satires Books III, IV and V (Aris & Phillips 2022, 2016 and 2020); Horace: Selected Satires (Bloomsbury 2018), Ovid: Metamorphoses III: A Selection (Bloomsbury 2013) and editions of Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Books IV and VI and the complete works of Catullus for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.

Product details

• Authors: John Godwin
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781802074697
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-469-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Greece and Rome Live
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies