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Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman Satire’s most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek OldComedy.JenniferL.Ferriss-HillanalyzesthewritingsofLucilius, Horace,andPersius,highlightingthefeaturesthattheycraftedonthe model of Aristophanes and his fellow-poets: the authoritative yet compromised author; the self-referential discussions of poetics that vacillate between defensive and aggressive; the deployment of per- sonal invective in the service of literary polemics; and the abiding interestin criticizingindividuals, types, andlanguageitself. Thefirst book-length study in English on the relationship between Roman Satire and Old Comedy, Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition will appeal to students and researchers in Classics, Comparative Literature, and English. jennifer l. ferriss-hill isAssistantProfessorofClassicsat the University of Miami. Her articles have appeared in American JournalofPhilology,ClassicalPhilology,IllinoisClassicalStudies,and Transactionsof theAmerican Philological Association. Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition jennifer l. ferriss-hill UniversityofMiami 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107081543 ©JenniferL.Ferriss-Hill2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Ferriss-Hill,JenniferL.,1979–author. Romansatireandtheoldcomictradition/JenniferL.Ferriss-Hill,UniversityofMiami. pages cm “ThismonographisathoroughlyrevisedandexpandedversionofmyPh.D.dissertation,Poetics andPolemics:Horace’sSatiricIdiomandtheComicTradition(HarvardUniversity,2008).”– Acknowledgments. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-08154-3(Hardback) 1. Satire,Latin–Historyandcriticism. 2. Lucilius,Gaius,approximately180B.C.–approximately 102B.C. 3. Horace. 4. Persius. 5. Satire,Greek–Historyandcriticism. I. Title. PA6095.F472014 8770.0109–dc23 2014032224 ISBN978-1-107-08154-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Robert, Beatrice, and Julian Contents Acknowledgments [page ix] Introduction [1] RereadingQuintilian [1] RomanSatireonOldComedy [3] Truth-TellingLaughter [23] HowDidtheRomanSatiristsKnowOldComedy? [38] 1. The Poet in Tension [45] TheUrbanPoet [45] TheDidacticPoet [62] TheMisunderstoodPoet [72] TheAbjectPoet [86] TheLawbreakingPoet [95] ThePoetasChef [101] Conclusions [118] 2. Defensive Poetics [121] TheDefensivePoeticsofOldComedy [121] CallimachusandTerence [128] LucilianBeginnings [138] HoratianManipulations [143] PersianTwistsandJuvenalianWithdrawal [156] Conclusions [169] 3. Literary Criticism [171] OfthePoet’sOwnGenre [171] OfOtherGenres [187] LuciliusandRomanSatire’sOldComicModels [188] Horace [195] Persius [203] Juvenal [212] Conclusions [215] 4. Criticizing the Komodoumenoi [217] TheKomodoumenoiofOldComedyandRomanSatire [217] LanguageCriticism [228] Conclusions [241] A Conclusion and Some New Directions [242] vii viii Contents Bibliography [251] Index Locorum [277] General Index [295]
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