Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and Ideal

by John Godwin

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.

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 satire was not so easy to characterise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802074694
• ISBN13: 9781802074697
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"