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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 ]
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Full text The Satires of Juvenal at Wikisource The Satires ( Latin : Saturae ) are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D.
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.
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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.
Satires (Horace) The Satires (Latin: Saturae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace.Published probably in 35 BC and at the latest, by 33 BC, [1] [2] the first book of Satires represents Horace's first published work.
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