Writting Down Rome 'Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry '

ISBN-13: 9780198150770 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 250 str.

John Henderson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Henderson is an astute reader, adept at finding the ironies in Latin poetry. Timothy Moore, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.