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Servius’ Use of Persius in His Commentary on Vergil’s Aeneid: Uncovering a Rich Intertextual Dialogue
This paper shows that in his commentary on Vergil’s Aeneid Servius makes significant use of Persius’ Satires . Although these poems are mainly cited in the context of linguistic explanations, the selection of the material reveals Servius’ close familiarity with Persius’ work, as well as his thorough understanding of the satirist’s allusive engagement with Vergil. Most of the parallels are drawn from scenes where Persius evokes Vergil either directly to comment on his predecessor’s poetic technique, or indirectly to create a comic effect by describing the morally degraded world of his satires with the language of a loftier literary genre.
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Satirical Designators for Romans. The Roman Past and Roman names in Persius’ Satire 1
Persius refers to Romans with names drawn from the Roman past, namely Polydamas et Troiades, Titos, Romulidae, and Romule. The names are chosen due to their multi-layered semantics and allusions that result into irony and generate paradoxes that make up the satire. This paper aims to highlight the employment of these designators as a case study in literary onomastics in Roman satire. It comments on the function of the names in their context with a focus on the treatment of the Roman past through them; then it analyses the emerging patterns as additional aspects of Persius’ style and critique.
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Bodily Metaphors and Failed Resolution in Persius’s First Satire
Persius’s first satire programmatically positions his authorial persona at a remove from contemporary literary practice. By coordinating its bodily images as a metaphorical theme, the poem articulates the satirist’s stance on literary production and consumption. After demonstrating a series of correspondences between eyes and ears, this article contextualizes these dynamics within a system of iuncturae acres by reflecting on the grotesque hybridity of such images and argues that Persius inserts himself into a critical discourse of his own creation and thereby fashions his satiric persona in terms favorable to his position as a poet who experiments with form.
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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 Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius, highlighting the features that they crafted on the 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 personal invective in the service of literary polemics; and the abiding interest in criticizing individuals, types, and language itself. The first 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.
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Thomas Naogeorgus’s Infernal Satire: Text, Translation, and Commentary to Satyrarum libri quinque priores III.1 (1555)
This study provides an analysis, text, and translation of satire III.1 from Thomas Naogeorgus’s Satyrarum libri quinque priores (1555), which offers a vivid neo-Latin poetic depiction of the fall of Satan and his followers. It situates Naogeorgus’s work within the tradition of early modern satire and epic, exploring its alignment with theological discourse and its engagement with classical and Biblical motifs. Through a close reading of the text, this article identifies significant thematic and stylistic parallels with John Milton’s Paradise Lost. While acknowledging the limitations of asserting direct literary influence, it highlights Naogeorgus’s unique contributions to the broader literary tradition of Christian epic poetry. The paper calls for greater scholarly attention to Naogeorgus’s oeuvre, emphasizing its value beyond mere comparative analyses, as a distinctive voice in Reformation humanist verse. By providing a translation and commentary, this work aims to promote further studies of neo-Latin literature and its complex interplay with theological and literary traditions.
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Masculinity and Literature in Persius' First Satire: The Case of Some Double Entendres
In this article I examine certain cases of sexual double entendre in Persius' first satire which so far have essentially escaped the attention of scholars. I focus on their potential to illuminate aspects of his satiric persona and poetics, of his contribution to the evolution of the satiric genre, of his agenda as a poet and of the literary trends of his day. I argue that with doubly-intending word play, the satirist criticizes the extensive generic enrichment that dominates the poetry of his time, redefines the notion of literary virility by dissociating it from the size of a poem and suggesting other criteria of masculinity and artfully promotes his own work and his originality.
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A companion to Persius and Juvenal
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as \"satiric successors\"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives
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