Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire /
Rosen, Ralph Mark.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and indexes.
The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry -- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes -- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites -- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire -- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi -- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5 -- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.
Verse satire, Classical