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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. Includes short bio of the editor. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiliegend Kurzbio des Herausgebers. - CONTENTS: Introduction: Roman satire by KIRK FREUDENBURG -- Part I: Satire as literature -- 1. Rome�s first �satirists�: themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius by FRANCES MUECKE -- 2. The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2 by EMILY GOWERS -- 3. Speaking from silence: the Stoic paradoxes of Persius by ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI -- 4. The poor man�s feast: Juvenal by VICTORIA RIMELL -- 5. Citation and authority in Seneca�s Apocolocyntosis by ELLEN O�GORMAN -- 6. Late arrivals: Julian and Boethius by JOEL RELIHAN -- 7. Epic allusion in Roman satire by CATHERINE CONNORS -- 8. Sleeping with the enemy: satire and philosophy by ROLAND MAYER -- 9. The satiric maze: Petronius, satire, and the novel by VICTORIA RIMELL -- Part II: Satire as social discourse -- 10. Satire as aristocratic play by THOMAS HABINEK -- 11. Satire in a ritual context by FRITZ GRAF -- 12. Satire and the poet: the body as self-referential symbol by ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI AND ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI -- 13. The libidinal rhetoric of satire by ERIK GUNDERSON -- Part III: Beyond Rome: satire in English letters -- 14. Roman satire in the sixteenth century by COLIN BURROW -- 15. Alluding to satire: Rochester, Dryden, and others by DAN HOOLEY -- 16. The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters by CHARLES MARTINDALE -- 17. The �presence� of Roman satire: modern receptions and their interpretative implications by DUNCAN KENNEDY -- Conclusion -- The turnaround: a volume retrospect on Roman satires by JOHN HENDERSON. - 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 introduction 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. ISBN 9780521803595