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This text is a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. It examines the development of the genre and focuses particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. The book considers why men of learning and position adopted this "low" mode of expression, why satire was important to the Romans, and why it still matters. Designed for student readers, it presumes no specialized knowledge, yet takes account of the most recent critical approaches. The text presents each of the major practitioners of verse satire - Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, and their forebear Lucilius - in the context of the social milieux in which they wrote. It includes comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists, including those of the Menippean tradition.
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"This is the best introduction to this subject this reviewer hasencountered ... It is stimulating, original, and highlyinformative, and it takes account of all relevant scholarship... Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels."(Choice)
"What sets this introductory book apart from others of its kindis its dedication to tackling the perpetually vexing question ofsatire as a genre - the question that vexed the satiriststhemselves." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
"A volume to which one would direct bright students in search ofstimulation and intellectual challenge." (ScholiaReviews)"You can trust Hooley to convey to students and teachers in bothclassics and literature classes the best of current thinking on thegenre and mode of satire."
--John Henderson, University of Cambridge
"This is no run-of-the-mill introduction to Roman satire. Thebook does its solid introductory work, certainly, but at the sametime, it manages to be quite brilliant and chock-full of smart newobservations."
--Kirk Freudenburg, University of Illinois
"This is the best introduction to this subject this reviewer hasencountered ... It is stimulating, original, and highlyinformative, and it takes account of all relevant scholarship... Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels."(Choice)
"What sets this introductory book apart from others of its kindis its dedication to tackling the perpetually vexing question ofsatire as a genre - the question that vexed the satiriststhemselves." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
"A volume to which one would direct bright students in search ofstimulation and intellectual challenge." (ScholiaReviews)"You can trust Hooley to convey to students and teachers in bothclassics and literature classes the best of current thinking on thegenre and mode of satire."
--John Henderson, University of Cambridge
"This is no run-of-the-mill introduction to Roman satire. Thebook does its solid introductory work, certainly, but at the sametime, it manages to be quite brilliant and chock-full of smart newobservations."
--Kirk Freudenburg, University of Illinois