Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire / Ralph M. Rosen.

Author/creator Rosen, Ralph Mark
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxiii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesClassical culture and society
Classical culture and society. ^A602305
Contents The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry -- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes -- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites -- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire -- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi -- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5 -- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and indexes.
LCCN 2006023216
ISBN9780195309966 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0195309960 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PA3022.S28 R67 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold