Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry

by John Henderson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198150770
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)