Kniha Writing Down Rome John Henderson

Writing Down Rome

Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in p...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
1998
Stránok
392
EAN
9780198150770
ISBN
0198150776
Enbook ID
04522170
Hmotnosť
662
Rozmery
145 x 224 x 30

Kompletný popis

In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. Comedy in Republican Rome radically transformed both itself and the culture from which it sprang: in Poenulus, Plautus laughed at Roman depreciation of Carthage; in Adelphoe, Terence turned on his audience in provocation. The comic Roman poets played with self-mockery: in Eclogue III, Virgil tests his audience's security in judging peasant unpleasantness; in Odes III.22, Horace sends up his own pious rusticity down on the farm. In the second half of the book, Roman verse satire is the subject: the genre of male bragging mocks its own masculine aggression. The great Latin satirists make fun of making fun: Horace, Satires I.9, shows up the politics of humour, unmanned by his own good manners; Persius nails his own weaknesses in fortifying himself against the world; Juvenal, Satire 1, loathes the literary scene he bids to dominate. The book shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure.

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