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Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry
Writing Down Rome Satire Comedy and Other Offences in Latin Poetry
Author: John Henderson
Taking particular plays and poems from Roman comic theatre and the genre of Latin satire, this book finds Rome sending up Roman culture - making a mess of drama, jesting at rustic gaucherie, caricaturing the cult of masculine aggression. Writing Down Rome explores the robust poetic of self-denigration. Henderson's essays celebrate the energetic ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198150770
ISBN-10: 0198150776
Publication Date: 2/25/1999
Pages: 250
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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