Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition

by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107081548
• ISBN13: 9781107081543
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"