Writing down Rome : satire, comedy, and other offences in Latin poetry
"The essays, gathered and revised for Writing Down Rome, celebrate the energetic self-mockery that powers much of Roman poetry. They range widely over comedy, lyric, bucolic, and, in particular, the Roman speciality of satire. The papers explore particular plays of Plautus and Terence; Catullus kissing; one visceral and one red-neck poem from Horace; a Virgilian mockery of an Eclogue; the gendering of Satire and its different flavours in Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. They include notorious japes and jeux, for this lusty book matches the spirit of the Roman penchant for self-satirizing denigration with wicked writing of its own."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 1999
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999