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…
Callimachus' book of Iambi
by Callimachus, Kerkhecker, Arnd
fromOxford classical monographs
Luciani Opera
by Macleod, M. D., Lucian,, of Samosata
fromScriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis
This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.
"For the first time one volume provides the reader with scholarly examination of the genre of satyr drama by experts in multiple fields: philology, textual criticism, literary interpretation, ancient reception, and archaeology. Sections are devoted to the three most prolific wri…
