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Writing Down Rome
Author | : John Henderson |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 1998-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191584428 |
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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.
Legible Religion
Author | : Duncan MacRae |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674969681 |
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Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?
Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition
Author | : Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107081543 |
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This volume demonstrates that distinctive features of Roman satire found in the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius derived from Greek Old Comedy.
Omnium Annalium Monumenta Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome
Author | : Kaj Sandberg,Christopher Smith |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004355552 |
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Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome: Omnium Annalium Monumenta is a major collection of essays by distinguished authors on the development of Roman historiography.
Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions
Author | : Catherine Keane |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190266974 |
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In his sixteen verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery. He makes use of traditional generic elements such as the first-person speaker, moral diatribe, narrative, and literary allusion to create this new satiric preoccupation and theme. Juvenal defines the satirist figure as an emotional agent who dramatizes his own response to human vices and faults, and he in turn aims to engage other people's feelings. Over the course of his career, he adopts a series of rhetorical personae that represent a spectrum of satiric emotions, encouraging his audience to ponder satire's proper emotional mode and function. Juvenal first offers his signature indignatio with its associated pleasures and discomforts, then tries on subtler personae that suggest dry detachment, callous amusement, anxiety, and other affective states. As Keane shows, the satiric emotions are not only found in the author's rhetorical performances, but they are also a major part of the human farrago that the Satires purport to treat. Juvenal's poems explore the dynamic operation of emotions in society, drawing on diverse ancient literary, rhetorical, and philosophical sources. Each poem uniquely engages with different texts and ideas to reveal the unsettling powers of its emotional mode. Keane also analyzes the "emotional plot" of each book of Satires and the structural logic of the entire series with its wide range of subjects and settings. From his famous angry tirades to his more puzzling later meditations, Juvenal demonstrates an enduring interest in the relationship between feelings and moral judgment.
The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire
Author | : Maria Plaza |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191535840 |
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Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it. Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature of Roman satire.
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Author | : Jérôme Carcopino |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300101864 |
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Provides insight into Roman life of the second century A.D.
A Plautus Reader
Author | : John Henderson |
Publsiher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780865166943 |
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