Satires of Rome threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal / Kirk Freudenburg.

Author/creator Freudenburg, Kirk, 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C. Saturae.
Persius--Criticism and interpretation.
Juvenal--Criticism and interpretation.
Horace--Criticism and interpretation.
Verse satire, Latin--History and criticism.
Rome--In literature.

Contents Machine generated contents note: x Horace -- The diatribe satires (Sermones 1.1-1.3): "You're no Lucilius" -- Sermones book I and the problem of genre -- Remembered voices: satire made new in Sermones 1.i -- The social poetics of Horatian libertas: since when is "enough" a -- "feast"? -- Hitting satire'sfinis: along for the ride in Sermones 1.5 -- Dogged by ambition: Sermones 1.6-io -- Book 2 and the totalitarian squeeze: new rules for a New Age -- Panegyric bluster and Ennius' Scipio in Horace, Sermones 2.1 -- Coming to terms with Scipio: the new look of post-Actian satire -- Big friends and bravado in Sermones 2.1 -- Book 2 and the hissings of compliance -- Nasidienus' dinner-party: too much of not enough -- 2 Persius -- Of narrative and cosmogony: Persius and the invention of Nero -- The Prologue: top-down aesthetics and the making of oneself -- Faking it in Nero's orgasmatron: Persius i and the death of -- criticism -- The satirist-physician and his out-of-joint world -- Satire's lean feast: finding a lost "pile" in P. 2 -- Teaching and tail-wagging, critique as crutch: P. 4 -- Left for broke: satire as legacy in P. 6 -- 3 Juvenal -- A lost voice found: Juvenal and the poetics of too much, too late -- vii -- Remembered monsters: time warp and martyr tales in Trajan's -- Rome -- Ghost-assault in Juv. I -- The poor man's Lucilius -- Life on the edge: from exaggeratin to self-defeat -- Beating a dead fish: the emperor-satirist of Juv. 4 -- Satires 3 ands: the poor man's lunch of Umbricius and Trebius -- List of works cited -- General index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 278-284) and index.
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ISBN0521803578 (hardback)
ISBN052100621X (pbk.)