The Cambridge companion to Roman satire

Abstract

Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century bce. Regarded by them as uniquely “their own, ” satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a “real Roman. ” In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduc-tion to Roman satire’s core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire “does ” within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre’s further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, “Menippean ” satires that would become the models for Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire’s crowning jewel) Swift. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press

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