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Pastoral
(8,149 words)
¶ Pastoral poetry was the invention of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus (
c. 300–260 bce), whose extant works comprise about a dozen bucolic works with rustic settings, as well as various hymns, encomia, and epyllia…
Pasquinades
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¶ In the late Quattrocento, a marble torso based on a Hellenistic statue was found on the grounds of the Palazzo Orsini in Rome. By 1501 Cardinal Oliviero Carafa had acquired the work from his Orsini r…
Satire
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¶ In his survey of the classical literature useful to an orator, the first-century rhetorician Quintilian famously asserts that ‘satire is an entirely Roman genre’ (
satura quidem tota nostra est): Satire, on the other hand, is all…
