Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with ...
To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's ...
There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works ...
Between 100 and 127 AD, he published five books containing 16 satiric poems. The Satires, as they became known, attacked cruelty, foolishness and the corruption of Roman society. The most famous ...
In their second episode, Colin and Clare look at the dense, digressive and often dangerous satires of John Donne and other poets of the 1590s. It’s likely that Donne was the first Elizabethan author ...