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1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) |
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Cambridge classical studies |
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PARENTIBUS OPTIMIS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 STYLE AND EXPRESSION IN PERSIUS' FIFTH SATIRE; EXCURSUS 1; The rejection of mythology; EXCURSUS 2; 'Pullatis' and 'bullatis' at Persius v. 19; EXCURSUS 3; Connotation in ancient literary theory; CHAPTER 2 THE PROGRAMMATIC SATIRE AND THE METHOD OF PERSIUS I; EXCURSUS: Literature as a revelation of life; CHAPTER 3 THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF PERSIUS' IMAGERY; LITERARY-CRITICAL MOTIFS; EARS; 'ASINUS'; 'EUGE' AND 'BELLE'; THE HEROIC PAST |
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MOTIFS SIMULTANEOUSLY SATIRIC AND LITERARY-CRITICALDISEASE; DRESS AND APPEARANCE; HOMOSEXUALITY AND EFFEMINACY; FOOD AND DRINK; EXCURSUS 1; Sexual imagery in Horace Epistles 1. 20 and Callimachus Epigram XXVIII Pf.; EXCURSUS 2; 'Digentia' in Horace's Epistles; EXCURSUS 3; Furius at Horace Satires II. 5.40-1; CHAPTER 4 PERSIUS' FIRST SATIRE: ANALYSIS; EXCURSUS 1; Nuts and uncles at Persius I. 10-11; EXCURSUS 2; 'Escae' at Persius 1. 22; EXCURSUS 3; 'Cutis' at Persius 1. 23; EXCURSUS 4; 'Pallor seniumque' at Persius 1. 26 and 'scire' at 1. 27; EXCURSUS 5; Dogs and doorsteps at Persius 1. 108-10 |
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EXCURSUS 6Attractive surface and internal corruption; EXCURSUS 7; Structural techniques: the condemnation of the crowd; CHAPTER 5 GRANDEUR AND HUMILITY: JUVENAL AND THE HIGH STYLE; JUVENAL AND THE HIGH STYLE; APPENDIX 1: ACCIUS AND PACUVIUS AT PERSIUS 1. 76-8; APPENDIX 2: VIRGIL AND THE MODERNS AT PERSIUS 1. 96; APPENDIX 3: THE IMAGE OF THE CHILD IN ANCIENT SATIRE AND DIATRIBE; APPENDIX 4: THE DISCLAIMER OF MALICE; INDEXES; 1: INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS; 2: INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM; 3: INDEX OF IMAGES, TOPICS AND WORDS |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Persius -- Literary style
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Persius fast |
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Persius Flaccus, Aulus. Saturae. swd |
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Persius Flaccus, Aulus. swd |
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Verse satire, Latin -- History and criticism
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Latin language -- Figures of speech
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Literary form -- History -- To 1500
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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Latin language -- Figures of speech
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Literary form
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Literature
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Literary style
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Verse satire, Latin
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Rome -- In literature
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107719958 |
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110771995X |
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9781107297913 |
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1107297915 |
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