This volume considers linguistic, cultural, and literary trends that fed into the creation of Roman satire in second-century BC Rome. Combining approaches drawn from linguistics, Roman history, and Latin literature, the chapters share a common purpose of attempting to assess how Lucilius' satires functioned in the social environment in which they were created and originally read. Particular areas of focus include audiences for satire, the mixing of varieties of Latin in the satires, and relationships with other second-century genres, including comedy, epic, and oratory. Lucilius' satires emerged at a time when Rome's new status as an imperial power and its absorption of influences from the Greek world were shaping Roman identity. With this in mind the book provides new perspectives on the foundational identification of satire with what it means to be Roman and satire's unique status as 'wholly ours' tota nostra among Latin literary genres.
Author(s): Brian W Breed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 332
FM......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
About the Contributors......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
A Note on References......Page 13
1. Introduction. Lucilius and Second- Century Rome......Page 15
2. Lucilius and the poetae seniores......Page 51
3. Lucilius’ Books......Page 69
4. Another Image of Literary Latin. Language Variation and the Aims of Lucilius’ Satires......Page 91
5. Verbal Mosaics. Speech Patterns and Generic Stylization in Lucilius......Page 142
6. The Early Lucilius and the Language of the Roman palliata......Page 172
7. Accent in Lucilius’ Hexameters......Page 194
8. Conversations about sermo......Page 225
9. Name Your Price! On the Assessments of Value and the Value of Assessments in Lucilius......Page 244
10. Pikes, Peacocks, and Parasites. Lucilius and the Discourse of Luxury......Page 263
11. Invective, amicitia, and virtus......Page 287
Bibliography......Page 300
Index Locorum......Page 320
Index Rerum......Page 324
