Writing down Rome : satire, comedy, and other offences in Latin poetry / John Henderson

Henderson, John

ISBN 10: 0198150776 / ISBN 13: 9780198150770

Published by Oxford : Clarendon, 1999

About this Item

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvii, 374 p., 23 cm. Contents: IntroductionPt. I. Comedy1. Hanno's Punic Heirs: Der Poenulus-Neid des Plautus. p. 32. Entertaining Arguments: Terence, Adelphoe. p. 38Pt. II. Lyric and Bucolic3. Who's Counting? - Catullus by Numbers. p. 694. Suck It and See: Horace, Epode 8. p. 93Appendix I. Woman as a MasqueradeAppendix II. Text of Horace, Epode 8Appendix III. Translation of Horace, Epode 8Appendix IV. Innuendo in Horace, Epode 85. Horace, Odes 3. 22, and the Life of Meaning: Stumbling and stampeding out of the woods, Blinking and screaming into the light, Snorting and gorging at the trough, Slashing and gouging at the death. p. 1146. Virgil's Third Eclogue: How Do You Keep an Idiot in Suspense? p. 145Pt. III. Satire7. Satire Writes Woman: Gendersong. p. 1738. Be Alert (Your Country Needs Lerts): Horace, Satires 1. 9. p. 2029. Learning Persius' Didactic Satire: The Teacher as Pupil. p. 22810. Pump up the Volume: Juvenal, Satire 1. 1-21. p. 249Endnotes. p. 274Date Chart. p. 333Bibliography. p. 336Index of Authors and Passages. p. 367General Index. p. 369. Subjects: Verse satire, Latin History and criticism. Latin drama (Comedy) History and criticism. Latin literature History and criticism. Literature and society Rome. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing down Rome : satire, comedy, and other offences in Latin poetry / John Henderson
• Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198150776
• ISBN 13: 9780198150770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

Taking particular plays and poems from Roman comic theatre and the genre of Latin satire, this book finds Rome sending up Roman culture - making a mess of drama, jesting at rustic gaucherie, caricaturing the cult of masculine aggression. Writing Down Rome explores the robust poetic of self-denigration. Henderson's essays celebrate the energetic self-mockery that powers much of Roman poetry. They range widely over comedy, lyric, bucolic, and, in particular, the Roman speciality of satire.

About the Author

John Henderson is Reader in Latin Literature and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.