Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and Ideal - Hardcover
by John Godwin
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Availability:In StockContributor:John GodwinSeries:Greece and Rome StudiesPublish date:2024-04-02Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781802074697ISBN-10:1802074694UPC:9781802074697Book Category:History, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient, Western Europe, Ancient, Classical & MedievalBook Topic:RomeSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC3Q7DHE05
Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and Ideal
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The Romans claimed to have invented satire--one of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims generally to puncture pretence and to hurt its targets with withering caricature and bruising irony, but Roman...
Series: Greece and Rome Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781802074697ISBN-10:1802074694UPC:9781802074697Book Category:History, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient, Western Europe, Ancient, Classical & MedievalBook Topic:RomeSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC3Q7DHE05
John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His many publications include Juvenal: Satires Books III, IV and V (Aris & Phillips 2022, 2016 and 2020); Horace: Selected Satires (Bloomsbury 2018), Ovid: Metamorphoses III: A Selection (Bloomsbury 2013) and editions of Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Books IV and VI and the complete works of Catullus for the Aris &...
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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