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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented satireone of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims generally to puncture pretence and to hurt its targets with withering caricature and bruising irony, but Roman satire was not so easy to characterise. One of the earliest exponents (Lucilius) went in for some personal invective and set the tone for many a 21st-century scribbler keen to wound his enemies with well-chosen words, but later writers in the Roman tradition distanced themselves from the tradition of personal critique and were reluctant to paint themselves as in any sense attack-dogs. If they were inveighing against folly and vice, it was (they claimed) more in a spirit of positive encouragement to us all to live better and happier lives, freed from the shackles of character-flaws and absurd be

Roman Verse Satires

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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented... Read more

    Publisher: Liverpool University Press
    Publication Date: 4/2/2024
    ISBN13: 9781802074697, 978-1802074697
    ISBN10: 1802074694

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented satireone of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims generally to puncture pretence and to hurt its targets with withering caricature and bruising irony, but Roman satire was not so easy to characterise. One of the earliest exponents (Lucilius) went in for some personal invective and set the tone for many a 21st-century scribbler keen to wound his enemies with well-chosen words, but later writers in the Roman tradition distanced themselves from the tradition of personal critique and were reluctant to paint themselves as in any sense attack-dogs. If they were inveighing against folly and vice, it was (they claimed) more in a spirit of positive encouragement to us all to live better and happier lives, freed from the shackles of character-flaws and absurd be

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