Author: R. A. HarveyPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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A Commentary on Persius
Author: R. A. HarveyPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Persius
Author: Shadi BartschPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624184X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In this short book, Bartsch explores an understudied poet and satirist who lived in Rome during the time of Nero, a man named Persius who was friends with Lucan and a member of Seneca the Younger s entourage. Most of the satirists who lived in Rome then tended to poke fun at the great gravitas of the Stoics, but not Persius. Unique among his literary peers, he, too, wrote satires that lampooned the State and social conventions of the day, yet he wrote from a Stoic point of view, translating, as Bartsch argues, philosophy into poetry and humor."
Persius and the Programmatic Satire
Author: J. C. BramblePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521038041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how Persius' discontent with conventional literary language led him to compress the existing satiric idiom and create a powerful individual style. The author situates Persius' work in the tradition of Roman satire, and shows how he takes the concepts and metaphors of literary criticism back to their physical origins, to indict moral and literary decadence through a series of images connected with, for example, gluttony and sexual excess. This is a model study of a classical text, which makes consistent sense of a difficult and subtle manner, and answers questions posed by the potentially constricting nature of Roman poetic form. It also reconstructs the referential framework of ideas and associations upon which a sophisticated writer addressing a discriminating audience could draw.
The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus
Author: PersiusThe Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus
Author: PersiusPersius and Juvenal
Author: Maria PlazaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019157077X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The last decades have seen a lively interest in Roman verse satire, and this collection of essays introduces the reader to the best of modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal. The eight articles on Persius range from detailed analyses of his fine technique to readings inspired by theoretical approaches such as New Historicism, Reader-Response Criticism, and Dialogics. The nine selections on Juvenal focus upon the pivotal question in modern Juvenalian criticism: how serious is the poet when he voices his appallingly misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic moralism? The contributors challenge the straightforward equivalence of author and speaker in a variety of ways, and they also point up the technical aspects of Juvenal's art. Three papers have been newly translated for this volume, and all Latin quotations are also given in English. A specially written Introduction provides a useful conspectus of recent scholarship.
The Greek Words in Persius’ Literary Programme
Author: Spyridon TzounakasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111502279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius’ programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual dialogues with many writers. Greek words that occur in programmatic passages throw into relief various pathologies of poetry which Persius disapproves of and which contribute effectively to a justification of his rejection. However, this practice, which does not continue into the rest of his work, where Greek words are incorporated into the satirist’s thought more harmoniously, appears to serve specific expediencies and should not be considered characteristic of Persius’ attitude towards Greek culture in general. Besides, the satiric persona adopts a positive stance regarding Greek philosophy or comedy and criticizes the ignorant critics of Greek culture, while many aspects of Greek thought enrich his own poetry in several passages. Thus, despite the intensity with which he turns against the Graecizing compositions of his day, generalizations regarding an anti-Hellenic stance on Persius’ part should be deemed unfounded.
A Bibliography of Persius
Author: Morris Hicky MorganPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Library of Harvard University
ISBN:
Category : Persius--Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Author: Susanna BraundPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118301986
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives
Juvenal and Persius
Author: JuvenalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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