Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- John Henderson
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Ancient & Classical
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780198150770
- ISBN-10
- 0198150776
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry
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ISBN: 0198150776
Author: Henderson, John
Condition: New
Taking particular plays and poems from Roman comic theatre and the genre of Latin satire, this book finds Rome sending up Roman culture - making a mess of drama, jesting at rustic gaucherie, caricaturing the cult of masculine aggression. Writing Down Rome explores the robust poetic of self-denigration. Henderson's essays celebrate the energetic self-mockery that powers much of Roman poetry. They range widely over comedy, lyric, bucolic, and, in particular, the Roman speciality of satire.
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