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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel M Hooley |
| ISBN: | 1405106883 9781405106887 1405106891 9781405106894 |
| OCLC Number: | 69013069 |
| Description: | xi, 189 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Beginnings -- Horace -- Persius -- Juvenal -- Menippeans and after. |
| Series Title: | Blackwell introductions to the classical world. |
| Responsibility: | Daniel M. Hooley. |
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 "This is the best introduction to this subject this reviewer has encountered ... It is stimulating, original, and highly informative, and it takes account of all relevant scholarship ... Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels." (Choice) "What sets this introductory book apart from others of its kind is its dedication to tackling the perpetually vexing question of satire as a genre - the question that vexed the satirists themselves." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "A volume to which one would direct bright students in search of stimulation and intellectual challenge." (Scholia Reviews) Read more...
