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  2. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire) Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – Satyricon; Juvenal (1st to early 2nd cc. CE, Roman Empire) – Satires; Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire) Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – The Golden Ass; Various authors (9th century CE and later) – One Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ ...

  3. Category:Ancient Roman satirists - Wikipedia

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  4. Satire - Wikipedia

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    The first Roman to discuss satire critically was Quintilian, who invented the term to describe the writings of Gaius Lucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are Horace and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire. Other important satirists in ancient Latin are Gaius Lucilius and Persius.

  5. Juvenal - Wikipedia

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    Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ ˈ dʒ uː v ən əl / JOO-vən-əl; c. 55–128), was a Roman poet.He is the author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems.

  6. Lucian - Wikipedia

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    Lucian of Samosata [a] (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, c. 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.

  7. Horace - Wikipedia

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    His Satires are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the Odes) [74] but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of Lucilius, whom Horace mocked for his sloppy standards (Satires 1.10.56–61) [nb 15] The Epistles may be considered among Horace's most innovative works. There was nothing ...

  8. Gaius Lucilius - Wikipedia

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    In point of form, the satire of Lucilius owed nothing to the Greeks. It was a legitimate development of an indigenous dramatic entertainment, popular among the Romans before the first introduction of the forms of Greek art among them; also, it seems largely to have employed the form of the familiar epistle.

  9. List of ancient Romans - Wikipedia

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    This an alphabetical list of ancient Romans, including citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history. This list ...