Writting Down Rome 'Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry '

By 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 self-mockery that powers much of Roman poetry. They range widely over comedy, lyric, bucolic, and, in particular, the Roman speciality of satire.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198150776
• ISBN13: 9780198150770
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 8.3"