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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 ]
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)
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Satire VI is the most famous [according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English translation, this satire is often titled something in the vein of Against Women due to the most obvious reading of its content.
Carnivalization is the translation of these essential qualities into the literary realm, beginning with the ancient seriocomic genres, such as Socratic Dialogue and Menippean Satire, and reaching its highest point in the novels of Rabelais and Dostoevsky. The concept suggests an ethos where normal hierarchies, social roles, proper behaviors and ...
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Satire 1.7, Proscripti Regis Rupili pus atque venenum ("The pus and poison of the proscribed Rupilius Rex") This satire deals with a court case that Persius, a Greek merchant of mixed birth, won against the Roman Rupilius Rex. Following the account of Horace's youth in 1.6, this satire tells a story from his service under Brutus during the ...