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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.
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. There are a number of modern
translations of Hesiod available, rendered in serviceable English,
but until now no one has created a work of literature equal to the
original. This translation is the result of a unique collaboration
between a classicist and a poet, capturing in English "fourteeners"
the works' true poetic flavor while remaining faithful to the Greek
text and the archaic world in which it was composed.
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