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Ancient Roman jokes, as described by Cicero and Quintilian, are best employed as a rhetorical device. [1] Many of them are apparently taken from real-life trials conducted by famous advocates, such as Cicero .
Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) lived in the waning days of the Roman Republic, just before the Imperial era that began with Augustus.Catullus is the chief representative of a school of poets known as the poetae novi or neoteroi, both terms meaning "the new poets".
Hrosvitha of Gandersheim. There is little information on Hrosvitha's life and background. According to information she provided in Carmen de Primordiis Coenobii Gandersheimensis, she was born a long time after the death of Otto the Illustrious (November 30, 912), but was older than the daughter of Henry, Duke of Bavaria, Gerberga II (born after the year 940).
Juvenal's Satire 3 in Latin and English, at Vroma; Juvenal's Satires 1, 10, and 16, English translation by Lamberto Bozzi (2016–2017) Juvenal's Satires in English verse, through Google Books; The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius in English prose, through Google Books; Commentary on the Satires by Edward Courtney
Leech and à Beckett first collaborated on their The Comic History of England (1847–1848), for which Leech had produced broadly humorous etchings. [5] He created still finer illustrations to The Comic History of Rome (1851) [6] — which, particularly in its minor woodcuts, shows some exquisitely graceful touches, as witness the fair faces that rise from the surging water in his illustration ...
Casina is a Latin comedy or farce by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Set in ancient Athens, the play describes how an Athenian gentleman and his son are both in love with the same slave-girl, Casina. The old man tries to conduct a secret affair with Casina by having her marry his farm-manager; but his plan is foiled by his ...
Roman folklore is the folklore of ancient Rome, including genres such as myth (Roman mythology), legend, joke, charms, fable, ghostlore, and numerous others. [1] Scholars have published a variety of collections focused on the folklore of ancient Rome. [2] Roman folklore is closely related to Ancient Greek folklore and precedes Italian folklore.
The word satura as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Quintilian famously said that satura, that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly Roman origin ( satura tota ...