Recognizing Persius

Language: English

Published by Princeton University Press, 2009

069114141X / 9780691141411

Series: Book 5 of 14 - Martin Classical Lectures

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. Reckford emphasizes the dramatic power and excitement of Persius's satires--works that normally would have been recited before a reclining, feasting audience. In highlighting the satires' remarkable honesty, Reckford shows how Persius converted Roman satire into a vehicle of self-exploration and self-challenge that remains relevant to readers today. The book explores the foundations of Roman satire as a performance genre: from the dinner-party recitals of Lucilius, the founder of the genre, through Horace, to Persius's more intense and inward dramatic monologues. Reckford argues that despite satire's significant public function, Persius wrote his pieces first and mainly for himself. Reckford also provides the context for Persius's life and work: his social responsibilities as a landowner; the interplay between his life, his Stoic philosophy, and his art; and finally, his incomplete struggle to become an honest and decent human being. Bringing the modern reader to a closer and more nuanced acquaintance with Persius's work, Recognizing Persius reinstates him to the ranks of the first-rate satirists, alongside Horace and Juvenal. …

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Title
Recognizing Persius
Author
Kenneth J. Reckford
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication year
2009
Condition
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Language
English
ISBN 10
069114141X
ISBN 13
9780691141411
Item weight
599 grams
Dimensions
240x161x20 mm
Series
Book 5 of 14: Martin Classical Lectures

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