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The invisible satirist : Juvenal and second-century Rome /
This title offers a new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. The study is unified by the idea of Juvenal as an 'invisible satirist'. Previous studies have focused on the nat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title: The Invisible Satirist; The Invisible Satirist; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Text; Introduction; The Voices of Juvenal�s Satires; The Past and the Present in Roman Satura; Contemporary Epic: Aspects of Form; chapter 1. Satire 1: Poetry, Accusation, and the Audience�s Role; Fronto�s Recitatio; Satirist and Informer: The History of a Relationship; The Crisis of Criticism and the Open Satiric Text; Satiric Voices in Tacitus�s Dialogus
- CHAPTER 2. The Invisibility of Juvenal“Atopic Topology�: The Thirteenth Oration of Dio Chrysostom; Juvenal�s Second Satire: Strategies for Speech and Disguise; Secrecy and Violence in Satire 9; CHAPTER 3. Romans and Greeks: New Views in the Graeca Urbs; The Prestige of Greek in the Letters of Pliny; Latin Recitatio and Cultural Competition in Trajanic Rome; Performing Greeks, Performing Romans: Juvenal, Satire 3.58�125; CHAPTER 4. Satire 8: Genealogy and Nobility in Hadrian�s Rome; Vivit Imago: Fictive and Textual Genealogies
- The Sophists on Genealogy and Nobility Roman Virtus: Provinces Won and Lost; CHAPTER 5. Satire 10: The Satirist among Cynics; Debasing the Coinage: A Cynic Mission; The Laugh of Democritus and the Cynic Ideal; Discontinuities in Juvenal; CHAPTER 6. Religion and Repetition: Satire 12; Horatian Ritual and the “New Augustus�; Animals and Humans in Satire 12; Religion and Captatio; Epilogue: Outsider Empire; Satire 15: The Sameness and Difference of Rome; Appendix: The Date of Juvenal�s First Book of Satires; Bibliography.