Articles about "satire"
Juvenal - Roman Writer of Satire Juvenal
Juvenal may have been the last great Roman satirist, but we know little about him.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm
Roots of Roman Satire - Background on the Genre of Roman Satire
Information on Latin literature and the Roman roots of Roman satire.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/latinliterature/a/rootsofsatire.htm
by William J. Dominik and William T. Wehrle
Review of Roman Verse Satire Lucilius to Juvenal, by William J. Dominik and ... Roman Verse Satire is an excellent, short introduction to satire and the ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/latinliterature/fr/revromansatire.htm
Roman Satire Timeline
Timeline of Roman Satire. ... Horace refers to the genre which Lucilius wrote, but he doesn't call his first book of satire "satura. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_time_satire.htm
Petronius Arbiter - Satirist - Petronius
Definition: Petronius, arbiter of elegance to the Emperor Nero, is assumed to be the same Petronius who was the author of a (Menippean satire) novel ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/poetsplaywrightswriters/g/Petronius.htm
Seneca - About Seneca
Seneca wrote tragedies, possibly not intended for dramatic performances, letters, and possibly a Menippean satire about the death of Nero's step-father, ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_seneca.htm
Aristophanes' Comedies - Descriptions of the Surviving Plays of ...
This play Daitaleis (The Banqueters) is lost, except for fragments suggesting the objects of its satire were educational and moral theories. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aristophanescomedy/tp/Aristophanes--Plays.htm
Horace - Roman Poet Horace
... Epistularum Libri II - The Epistles (2 Books); Epodon Liber - The Epodes; Sermonum Libri II (Satura) - The Satires (2 Books). More information - Horace ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/horace/g/Horace.htm
Fescennine Verse
Fescennine verse was a precursor of Roman comedy and was satirical, bawdy, and improvizational, used mainly at festivals or weddings (nuptialia carmina), ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/drama/g/fescennineverse.htm
Semonides of Amorgas - Greek Poet Semonides
Roots of Satire · Iambic Trimeter · Meter in Greek and Latin Poetry · Archaic Greece Timeline. References: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/people/p/semonides.htm
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