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Author Yona, Sergio, author

Title Epicurean ethics in Horace : the psychology of satire / Sergio Yona
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents Philosophical background to Epicureanism in Satires -- Epicurean economic and social undertones of Satires 1.1-3 -- Horace's Epicurean moral credentials in Satires 1.4 and 1.6 -- Flattery, patronage, wealth, and Epicurean ethics : Satires 1.9, 2.5, and 2.6 -- Deficient wealth, excessive frankness: Satires 2.2., 2.3, and 2.7
Summary Horace's Satires owe debts of influence to a wide range of genres and authors, including, as this study demonstrates, the moral tradition of Epicureanism. Focusing on the philosopher Philodemus of Gadara, it argues that the central concerns of his work lie at the heart of the poet's criticisms of Roman society and its shortcomings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018)
Subject Horace. Satirae.
Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. -- Influence
Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C.
SUBJECT Satirae (Horace) fast
Subject Satire.
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Satire
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
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