Writing Down Rome

Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry

By: John Henderson

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Hardcover | 1 January 1999

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In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. Comedy in Republican Rome radically transformed both itself and the culture from which it sprang: in Poenulus, Plautus laughed at Roman depreciation of Carthage; in Adelphoe, Terence turned on his audience in provocation. The comic Roman poets played with self-mockery: in Eclogue III, Virgil tests his audience's security in judging peasant unpleasantness; in Odes III.22, Horace sends up his own pious rusticity down on the farm. In the second half of the book, Roman verse satire is the subject: the genre of male bragging mocks its own masculine aggression. The great Latin satirists make fun of making fun: Horace, Satires I.9, shows up the politics of humour, unmanned by his own good manners; Persius nails his own weaknesses in fortifying himself against the world; Juvenal, Satire R1, loathes the literary scene he bids to dominate. The book shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure.

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Henderson is an astute reader, adept at finding the ironies in Latin poetry. Timothy Moore, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.

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Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. ix
Comedy	p. 1
Hanno's Punic Heirs: Der Poenulus-Neid des Plautus	p. 3
Entertaining Arguments: Terence, Adelphoe	p. 38
Lyric and Bucolic	p. 67
Who's Counting? -- Catullus by Numbers	p. 69
Suck It and See: Horace, Epode 8	p. 93
Innuendo in Horace, Epode 8	p. 112
Horace, Odes 3.22 and the Life of Meaning: Stumbling and stampeding out of the woods, Blinking and screaming into the light, Snorting and gorging at the trough, Slashing and gouging at the death	p. 114
Virgil's Third Eclogue: How Do You Keep an Idiot in Suspense?	p. 145
Satire	p. 171
Satire Writes Woman: Gendersong	p. 173
Be Alert (Your Country Needs Lerts): Horace, Satires 1. 9	p. 202
Learning Persius' Didactic Satire: The Pupil as Teacher	p. 228
Pump up the Volume: Juvenal, Satire 1. 1-21	p. 249
Endnotes	p. 274
Date Chart	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 336
Index of Authors and Passages	p. 367
General Index	p. 369
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