Branham expounds with sophistication and subtlety the essential ingredients of Lucian's satirical humor. He makes frequent reference to its importance for comic theory and literary history.
"When Western culture says 'epigram', it usually means 'Martial' - whether it knows it or not. For poets and their readers after Martial, epigram was inescapably satirical. For students of antiquity, satirical epigram has remained synonymous with its Roman founder." "Yet Martial…
Satirical, or 'skoptic', epigram emerged as a distinctive new sub-genre of Greek literature in the Roman Empire. In this book, Gideon Nisbet rehabilitates skoptic epigram, introduces its authors, gives an account of its development and situates it within its cultural context.
"When Western culture says 'epigram', it usually means 'Martial' - whether it knows it or not. For poets and their readers after Martial, epigram was inescapably satirical. For students of antiquity, satirical epigram has remained synonymous with its Roman founder." "Yet Martia…
In "Das traurige Los der Gelehrten", wie Christoph Martin Wieland die Schrift De Mercede Conductis frei übersetzte, behandelt Lukian von Samosata (2. Jh. n. Chr.) die ebenso hierarchische wie plurale römische Gesellschaft der Kaiserzeit mit ihrem Patronage- und Klientelwesen sow…
Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman Satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horac…
Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman Satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horac…