{"product_id":"roman-verse-satires-spleen-and-ideal-hardcover","title":"Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and Ideal - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Godwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 satire was not so easy to characterise. One of the earliest exponents (Lucilius) went in for some personal invective and set the tone for many a 21st-century scribbler keen to wound his enemies with well-chosen words, but later writers in the Roman tradition distanced themselves from the tradition of personal critique and were reluctant to paint themselves as in any sense attack-dogs. If they were inveighing against folly and vice, it was (they claimed) more in a spirit of positive encouragement to us all to live better and happier lives, freed from the shackles of character-flaws and absurd behaviour. Satire in verse was also a highly self-conscious literary exercise which invested its moral message with layers of irony and wit. This tradition of both personal and philosophical satire laid the foundations for the massive tradition of satire in Europe which continues to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoman Verse Satires\u003c\/em\u003e will examine the tradition of hexameter verse satires as practised by Ennius, Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal and will also present something of the massive influence which this this complex, at times contradictory and entertaining Roman genre had on later literature, culture and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His many publications include \u003cem\u003eJuvenal: Satires Books III, IV\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eV\u003c\/em\u003e (Aris \u0026amp; Phillips 2022, 2016 and 2020); \u003cem\u003eHorace: Selected Satires\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury 2018), \u003cem\u003eOvid: Metamorphoses III: A Selection\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury 2013) and editions of \u003cem\u003eLucretius: De Rerum Natura Books IV\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVI\u003c\/em\u003e and the complete works of Catullus for the Aris \u0026amp; Phillips Classical Texts series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988698038573,"sku":"9781802074697","price":187.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/vroyC0EBHY9781802074697.webp?v=1776232231","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/roman-verse-satires-spleen-and-ideal-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}