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Roman Satire

Daniel Hooley
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0688-7
Hardcover
204 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire.

  • Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts.

  • Takes account of recent critical approaches.

  • Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject.

  • Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal.

  • Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.