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The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities. [1] It has been broadly described as a mixture of allegory , picaresque narrative, and satirical commentary. [ 2 ]
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]
Juvenal, S. H. Gimber, 1837. Details of the author's life cannot be reconstructed definitively. The Vita Iuvenalis (Life of Juvenal), a biography of the author that became associated with his manuscripts no later than the tenth century, is little more than an extrapolation from the Satires.
The genre is defined by a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. [1] The sixth and tenth satires are some of the most renowned works in the collection. Book I: Satires 1–5; Book II: Satire 6; Book III: Satires 7–9; Book IV: Satires 10–12; Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved)
Little is known about the life of Menippus. He was of Phoenician descent, [1] [2] from the Greek city of Gadara [3] in Coele-Syria. [4] [5] He was originally a slave, [6] in the service of a citizen of Pontus, but in some way obtained his freedom and relocated to Thebes.
Satire 2.5 is often thought of as the least “Horatian” of the Satires and is often compared to works by Juvenal, a poet of the 1st century AD. Juvenal’s poems focus on the perversions of man and hint at Man’s loss of “his highest potentialities”.
Satire 2.1, Sunt quibus in satira ("There are those to whom I seem too harsh in satire") Horace, who is anxious his satires are making him unpopular, pretends to consult the famous jurist Gaius Trebatius Testa , who advises him to give up writing, or else to write an epic poem in honour of Augustus.
This book included 24 settings of Horatian odes for four voices in strict chordal style, the tenors of which, according to the preface, were composed by Fries, with the other parts filled in by the Zürich Cathedral organist and singer Heinrich Textor. The classical poetic meters are strictly observed, leading humanistic schoolteachers to use ...