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Record Nr.

UNISA996217847403316

Autore

Rosen Ralph Mark

Titolo

Making mockery [[electronic resource] ] : the poetics of ancient satire / / Ralph M. Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-538595-0

1-281-16353-8

9786611163532

0-19-804234-5

1-4356-1974-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Classical culture and society

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Verse satire, Classical - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry -- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes -- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites -- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire -- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi -- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5 -- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.

Sommario/riassunto

Ralph Rosen explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, encouraging a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire.