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Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire / Ralph M. Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Ralph Mark.
- Series:
- Classical culture and society.
- Classical culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Verse satire, Classical--History and criticism.
- Verse satire, Classical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ralph Rosen explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, encouraging a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire.
- Contents:
- The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry
- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes
- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites
- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire
- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi
- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5
- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-538595-0
- 1-281-16353-8
- 9786611163532
- 0-19-804234-5
- 1-4356-1974-9
- OCLC:
- 271577654
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