Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius, highlighting the features that they crafted on the model of Aristophanes and his fellow poets: the authoritative yet compromised author; the self-referential discussions of poetics that vacillate between defensive and aggressive; the deployment of personal invective in the service of literary polemics; and the abiding interest in criticizing individuals, types, and language itself. The first book-length study in English on the relationship between Roman satire and Old Comedy, Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition will appeal to students and researchers in classics, comparative literature, and English.
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Introduction; 1. The poet in tension; 2. Defensive poetics; 3. Literary criticism; 4. Criticizing the komodoumenoi; Conclusion.
'This is a thought-provoking book, useful for scholars of Roman Satire and those interested in Roman reception of Greek literature more generally.' Erin K. Moodie, Purdue University, Indiana
This volume demonstrates that distinctive features of Roman satire found in the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius derived from Greek Old Comedy.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781107081543
Publisert
2015-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
700 gr
Høyde
249 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
314

Biographical note

Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Philology, Classical Philology, Illinois Classical Studies and Transactions of the American Philological Association.