Roman Satire Flashcards

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Modern Satirists

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John Stewart, John Oliver, etc…

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Satire

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Exposes what needs to be changed in a comical way

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Satura

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

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Ennius

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Father of Satire

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Martial

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

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Style

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

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Horace

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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

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Juvenal

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

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Topics

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Nobility, money, greed, friendship, etc…

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10
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Traditional satire

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Dactylic hexameter

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Menippean satire

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Mix of prose and verse (Petronius)

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Horace’s beef with Lucilius

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

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Horace 1.1

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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

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Horace 1.9

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

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15
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Jim Gaffigan

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Everyone has a vice

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16
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Juvenal’s compliant

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Informers are getting ahead in society

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Petronius’ dinner

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

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Trimalchio

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

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Roland Burris

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Made his own tomb with a lot of stuff about him