A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. (English and Latin Edition) - Softcover

Catherine Keane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865166854 ISBN 13: 9780865166851

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal

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About the Author

Catherine C. Keane is Associate Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she has taught both undergraduate and graduate students since 2001. She holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on Roman verse satire, especially its generic theory and its connections with other ancient literature and cultural institutions. She is the author of Figuring Genre in Roman Satire (Oxford University Press, 2006) and of numerous articles and essays on the Roman satiric poets. Her works in progress include a book on Juvenal.

Review

Roman Verse Satire Reader is a recent addition and fine complement to the expanding Bolchazy-Carducci series aimed at advanced undergraduates and intended to work in combination with other texts. Keane is acutely aware of this mission, and this volume will certainly be a welcome component of a variety of Latin literature and culture courses. The persistence of satire from Lucilius to Juvenal and its many points of contact with other genres and rhetorical modes certainly justifies the inclusion of this volume in the series, and Keane is an excellent choice for selecting and editing the specified 500-600 lines from the corpus of Roman Satire.

The opening one-page overview contains the obligatory quotation from Quintilian that satire was tota nostra and gives a description of the genre including a brief and compelling discussion of the etymological origins, generic affiliations, programmatic satire, and satirical persona, or as Keane prefers, 'personality.' Remarks on the individual satirists and passages chosen for this volume follow, including a brief depiction of the meter and style, as well as useful and varied suggestions for further reading. The Latin text consists of four selections from the fragments of Lucilius, four excerpts from Horace, three from Persius, and six from Juvenal. There are brief and insightful introductions to each of the passages establishing the literary and cultural context. There is also a helpful vocabulary with vowel quantities included at the end of the book. --Bryce Walker, Sweet Briar College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0865166854
• ISBN 13: 9780865166851
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 142