Roman Satire / Edition 1

by Daniel Hooley

Overview

This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters.

• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405106887
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/09/2007
Series:	Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Daniel M. Hooley is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His previous publications include The Classics in Paraphrase: Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry (1988) and The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface.

Timeline: Roman satire and its influence.

Introduction.

1 Beginnings (?)

2 Horace.

3 Persius.

4 Juvenal.

5 Menippeans and after.

Notes.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"You can trust Hooley to convey to students and teachers in both classics and literature classes the best of current thinking on the genre and mode of satire."
—John Henderson, University of Cambridge

"This is no run-of-the-mill introduction to Roman satire. The book does its solid introductory work, certainly, but at the same time, it manages to be quite brilliant and chock-full of smart new observations."
—Kirk Freudenburg, University of Illinois

Editorial Reviews

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

"This is the best introduction to this subject this reviewer has encountered … It is stimulating, original, and highly informative, and it takes account of all relevant scholarship … Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels." (Choice)

"What sets this introductory book apart from others of its kind is its dedication to tackling the perpetually vexing question of satire as a genre - the question that vexed the satirists themselves." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)

"A volume to which one would direct bright students in search of stimulation and intellectual challenge." (Scholia Reviews)

From the Publisher