Roman Satire

Question 1

Modern Satirists

Answer 1

John Stewart, John Oliver, etc…

Question 2

Satire

Answer 2

Exposes what needs to be changed in a comical way

Question 3

Satura

Answer 3

Roman invention but related to old comedy, “filled full of food”

Question 4

Ennius

Answer 4

Father of Satire

Question 5

Martial

Answer 5

1st century poet who puts the types of poems in order

Question 6

Style

Answer 6

Dactylic hexameter, 1st person, humor and wit, exposes something to try to improve it

Question 7

Horace

Answer 7

Thought Satire should be written like a conversation and avoided vulgar language; made fun of Lucilius but people loved Lucilius so Horace gets in hot water

Question 8

Juvenal

Answer 8

Hard hitting and offensive; says he sees too much crap around him to not write satire

Question 9

Topics

Answer 9

Nobility, money, greed, friendship, etc…

Question 10

Traditional satire

Answer 10

Dactylic hexameter

Question 11

Menippean satire

Answer 11

Mix of prose and verse (Petronius)

Question 12

Horace’s beef with Lucilius

Answer 12

Lucilius is awkward with no humor and tries to show off by using Greek and Latin

Question 13

Horace 1.1

Answer 13

No one is ever happy with what they have, capitalism, but given the choice to switch lives no one would, but as long as you have enough money to live no more can make you any happier

Question 14

Horace 1.9

Answer 14

Pest wants to get close to Horace to get close to Maecenas

Question 15

Jim Gaffigan

Answer 15

Everyone has a vice

Question 16

Juvenal’s compliant

Answer 16

Informers are getting ahead in society

Question 17

Petronius’ dinner

Answer 17

Zodiac signs above the meat, nothing is as it seems, Trimalchio, in the time of Nero, attacks nobility

Question 18

Trimalchio

Answer 18

Not nice, bossy, dramatic, tacky, rich, used to be a slave, bigger deal than he should have been

Question 19

Roland Burris

Answer 19

Made his own tomb with a lot of stuff about him