Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal

by Kirk Freudenburg

Book Overview

The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we are made to sense, and see performed, the increasing pressure of imperial oversight in ancient Rome.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052100621X
• ISBN13: 9780521006217
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 11.2"