Lucilius Use Of Satire In Ancient Rome
SATIRE IN ANCIENT ROMAN PERIOD
Satire is a Roman rather than a Greek invention, and the word according to roman belief derives from ‘satura lanx ’meaning a full dish. Varro a menippean satirist tells us that satura is also used for stuffing made from a mix of ingredients, and in legal context the word implied a medley (Raghunathan,94)
There are two types of satires. The verse and Mennipean satire, which can be traced to Varro. Mennipean satirist frequently used a parody, blending prose and verse. The first use of this was made by Syrian Cynic Philosopher Menippus of Gadara and Varro brought it into Latin. The other, more important types of satire was ‘verse’. It was written in dactylillic hexameter which accounts for its relatively high place in the hierarchy of poetry …show more content…
His writing reflects in great measure, a crisis in Roman identity that came with Rome’s second-century economic and imperial success, especially the subjugation of Greece and whole city translation of Greek cultural material habits into lives of the Roman elites. Lucilius targeted some of the most powerful men of Rome’s political elite, hence classified fools and not follies. He was reckless, named names and made enemies. Horace complains that Lucilius never erased anything from his thought or his page, whereas Horace in turn, targeted type characters, unnamed fools and persons of no particular account. Horace, belonging to not-so-elite family, could not afford to make enemies. (Freudenburg, 10-11)
Horace (Quintus HoratiusFlaccus) is generally more familiar than other three, speaks in self-limit, hence keeps within the strict bounds of decorum-in tone, topics and so on. Horace’s friendly conversations are not always as friendly as they seem. They are littered with barbs of wit and aggression in silky folds of irony, innuendo and allusion. (Freudenburg,
Satire is a Roman rather than a Greek invention, and the word according to roman belief derives from ‘satura lanx ’meaning a full dish. Varro a menippean satirist tells us that satura is also used for stuffing made from a mix of ingredients, and in legal context the word implied a medley (Raghunathan,94)
There are two types of satires. The verse and Mennipean satire, which can be traced to Varro. Mennipean satirist frequently used a parody, blending prose and verse. The first use of this was made by Syrian Cynic Philosopher Menippus of Gadara and Varro brought it into Latin. The other, more important types of satire was ‘verse’. It was written in dactylillic hexameter which accounts for its relatively high place in the hierarchy of poetry …show more content…
His writing reflects in great measure, a crisis in Roman identity that came with Rome’s second-century economic and imperial success, especially the subjugation of Greece and whole city translation of Greek cultural material habits into lives of the Roman elites. Lucilius targeted some of the most powerful men of Rome’s political elite, hence classified fools and not follies. He was reckless, named names and made enemies. Horace complains that Lucilius never erased anything from his thought or his page, whereas Horace in turn, targeted type characters, unnamed fools and persons of no particular account. Horace, belonging to not-so-elite family, could not afford to make enemies. (Freudenburg, 10-11)
Horace (Quintus HoratiusFlaccus) is generally more familiar than other three, speaks in self-limit, hence keeps within the strict bounds of decorum-in tone, topics and so on. Horace’s friendly conversations are not always as friendly as they seem. They are littered with barbs of wit and aggression in silky folds of irony, innuendo and allusion. (Freudenburg,