Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and indexes.
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The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry -- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes -- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites -- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire -- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi -- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5 -- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Ralph Rosen explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, encouraging a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire.