Satires and Epistles

Name: Satires and Epistles
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ISBN: 9780199563289

ISBN-10: 0199563284

ISBN-13: 9780199563289

Edition: 2011

Authors: Horace, John Davie, Robert Cowan

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'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?'Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given bythe nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and Horace's pervasive humanity. They influenced not…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.63" wide x 7.68" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English