In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books of Satires are but trite sermons of moral reform--which the poems superficially claim to be--and that the reformer speaking to us is the young Horace, a naive Roman imitator of the rustic, self-made Greek philosopher Bion. By examining Horace's debt to popular comedy and to the conventions of Hellenistic moral literature, however, Freudenburg reveals the sophisticated mask through which the writer distances himself from the speaker in these earthy diatribes--a mask that enables the lofty muse of poetry to walk in satire's mundane world of adulterous lovers and quarrelsome neighbors. After presenting the speaker of the diatribes as a stage character, a version of the haranguing cynic of comedy and mime, Freudenburg explains the theoretical importance of such conventions in satire at large. His analysis includes a reinterpretation of Horace's criticisms of Lucilius, and ends with a theory of satire based on the several images of the satirist presented in Book One, which reveals the true depth of Horace's ethical and philosophical concerns.
Originally published in 1992.
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Acknowledgments The Persona of the Diatribe Satires and the Influence of Bion Diatribe in the Age of Horace The Persona and Self-Parody Self-Parody and the Influence of the Comic Stage Comic Self-Definition in Satires 1.4 The Comic Persona and His Comic World The Subtlety and Depth of the Comic Analogy Ch. 2Aristotle and the Iambographic Tradition: The Theoretical Precedents of Horace's Satiric Program Aristotle's Theory of the Liberal Jest Aristotle on Old Comedy and the Iambic Idea The Advocates of the Iambic Idea: Old-Comedy, the Iambos, and Cynic Moralizing Libertas in the Age of Horace Aristotelian Theory in Satires 1.4 Horace's Theory of Satire and the Iambographic Tradition Ch. 3The Satires in the Context of Late Republican Stylistic Theory The Stylist of Satires 1.4: A Most Unusual Horace Simple Diction Artfully Arranged: Some Theoretical Precedents Dionysius's On Word Arrangement and the Stoic Theory of Natural Word Order Philodemus and Lucretius Answering the Extremists: A New Look at Satires 1.4 Lucilius and the Atticist Theory of a Rugged Style The Neoterics and Satires 1.10 Satires 1.10 and Lucilian Scholarship in the First Century B.C. Ch. 4Callimachean Aesthetics and the Noble Mime Images of the Satirist and the Structure of Book 1 The Low-Life Satirist and Saturnalian Exposure The Mimus Nobilis Select Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
