Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life

J. Wight Duff’s Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life, first delivered as the Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley in 1936, offers a sweeping account of satire as Rome’s most characteristically social genre. Moving from Greek precedents to the creations of Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal, and others, Duff situates satire within the interplay of literary form, moral critique, and the texture of everyday Roman life. His analysis ranges across invective, epigram, beast fable, Stoic homily, and M...