Satires of Rome
Subtitle: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
By: Kirk Freudenburg.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Lucilius, Gaius, ca. 180-ca. 102 B.C.; Persius -- Criticism and interpretation.; Juvenal -- Criticism and interpretation.; Horace -- Criticism and interpretation.; Verse satire, Latin -- History and criticism.; Rome -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: x Horace; title: The diatribe satires (Sermones 1.1-1.3): "You're no Lucilius"; title: Sermones book I and the problem of genre; title: Remembered voices: satire made new in Sermones 1.i; title: The social poetics of Horatian libertas: since when is "enough" a; title: "feast"?; title: Hitting satire'sfinis: along for the ride in Sermones 1.5; title: Dogged by ambition: Sermones 1.6-io; title: Book 2 and the totalitarian squeeze: new rules for a New Age; title: Panegyric bluster and Ennius' Scipio in Horace, Sermones 2.1; title: Coming to terms with Scipio: the new look of post-Actian satire; title: Big friends and bravado in Sermones 2.1; title: Book 2 and the hissings of compliance; title: Nasidienus' dinner-party: too much of not enough; title: 2 Persius; title: Of narrative and cosmogony: Persius and the invention of Nero; title: The Prologue: top-down aesthetics and the making of oneself; title: Faking it in Nero's orgasmatron: Persius i and the death of; title: criticism; title: The satirist-physician and his out-of-joint world; title: Satire's lean feast: finding a lost "pile" in P. 2; title: Teaching and tail-wagging, critique as crutch: P. 4; title: Left for broke: satire as legacy in P. 6; title: 3 Juvenal; title: A lost voice found: Juvenal and the poetics of too much, too late; title: vii; title: Remembered monsters: time warp and martyr tales in Trajan's; title: Rome; title: Ghost-assault in Juv. I; title: The poor man's Lucilius; title: Life on the edge: from exaggeratin to self-defeat; title: Beating a dead fish: the emperor-satirist of Juv. 4; title: Satires 3 ands: the poor man's lunch of Umbricius and Trebius; title: List of works cited; title: General index.