Recognizing Persius
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Aristophanes
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Catullus
Chrysippus (mythology)
Conceit
Cratinus
Criticism
Declamation
Dionysus
Dramatic monologue
Ennius
Epictetus
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Flaccus
Flattery
Freedman
Futility (poem)
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Greed
Hipponax
Horace
Humour
In pectore
Intertextuality
Invective
Irony
John Donne
Joke
Juvenal
Laertes
Laughter
Literature
Lucretius
Martin Classical Lectures
Miser
Muse
Naevius
Old Comedy
Parody
Persius
Persona
Plautus
Poet
Poetry
Quintilian
Rhetoric
Satire
Satires (Horace)
Satires (Juvenal)
Self-parody
Seriousness
Subtext
Suffering
Suggestion
Symptom
Terence
The Other Hand
Theocritus
Uncertainty
Virgil
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- ISBN 9780691141411
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. Reckford emphasizes the dramatic power and excitement of Persius's satires--works that normally would have been recited before a reclining, feasting audience. In highlighting the satires' remarkable honesty, Reckford shows how Persius converted Roman satire into a vehicle of self-exploration and self-challenge that remains relevant to readers today. The book explores the foundations of Roman satire as a performance genre: from the dinner-party recitals of Lucilius, the founder of the genre, through Horace, to Persius's more intense and inward dramatic monologues. Reckford argues that despite satire's significant public function, Persius wrote his pieces first and mainly for himself.
Reckford also provides the context for Persius's life and work: his social responsibilities as a landowner; the interplay between his life, his Stoic philosophy, and his art; and finally, his incomplete struggle to become an honest and decent human being. Bringing the modern reader to a closer and more nuanced acquaintance with Persius's work, Recognizing Persius reinstates him to the ranks of the first-rate satirists, alongside Horace and Juvenal.
Kenneth J. Reckford is the Kenan Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include "Aristophanes' Old-And-New Comedy".
