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Satire and the threat of speech : Horace's satires, book 1
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ISBN: 0299209504 9780299209506 9786612269837 1282269836 0299209539 9780299209537 9781282269835 6612269839 Year: 2005 Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,

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In his first book of 'Satires', written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech provides insights into the operations of verbal control that are relevant to his time and to ours. She demonstrates that though Horace is forced by his political circumstances to develop a new, unthreatening style of satire, his poems contain a challenge to our most profound habits of violence, hierarchy, and domination. Focusing on the relationships between speaker and audience and between old and new style, Schlegel examines the internal conflicts of a notoriously difficult text. This exciting contribution to the field of Horatian studies will be of interest to classicists as well as other scholars interested in the genre of satire.

Theogony and Works and days
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ISBN: 0472099329 0472069322 9780472099320 9780472069323 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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"Written in the late eighth century BC by Hesiod, one of the oldest known of Greek poets, Theogony and Works and Days represent the earliest account of the origin of the Greek gods, and an invaluable compendium of advice for leading a moral life, both offering unique insights into archaic Greek society ... This translation contains a general introduction, a translator's introduction, notes, and a glossary."--Publisher description.

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