Sermonum liber secundus

Sermonum liber secundus (also known as "Satires II"), is a collection of eight satirical poems that the Roman poet Horace published in 30 BCE as a sequel to his successful first book of satirical poems, Satires I, published five years previous. Just like the earlier collection, the second book also addresses the fundamental question of Greek Hellenistic philosophy, the search for a happy and contented life. In contrast to Satires I, however, many of this book's poems are dialogues in which the poet allows a series of pseudo-philosophers, such the bankrupt art-dealer turned Stoic philosopher Damasippus, the peasant Ofellus, the mythical seer Teiresias, the poet's own slave Dama, to espouse their (erroneous) philosophy of life.

elected Bibliography

(only for Satires II - see always also the bibliography for Satires I)

commentary

* Muecke, Frances. "Horace, Satires II." Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1993, repr. with corr. 1997. ISBN 0-85668-531-3 (hb). ISBN 0-85668-532-1 (pb) (introduction, text, translation and extensive scholarly commentary)

more specialized literature

* Anderson, William S. "Ironic Preambles and Satiric Self-Definition in Horace "Satire" 2.1." "Pacific Coast Philology" 19 (1984) 36-42.
* Bernstein, Michael André. "O Totiens Servus: Saturnalia and Servitude in Augustan Rome." "Critical Inquiry" 13 (1986-1987) 450-74.
* Braund, Susan H. "City and Country in Roman Satire." In: Braund, S. H., ed. "Satire and Society in Ancient Rome." Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1989, 23-47.
* Clauss, James J. "Allusion and structure in Horace Satire 2.1. The Callimachean response." "Transactions of the American Philological Association" 115 (1985) 197-206.
* Classen, Carl Joachim. "Horace – A Cook?" "Classical Quarterly" 72 (1978) 333-48.
* Freudenburg, Kirk. "Horace's Satiric Program and the Language of Contemporary Theory in Satires 2.1." "American Journal of Philology" 111 (1990) 187-203.
* Hudson, Nicola A. "Food in Roman Satire," in: Braund, Susan H., ed. "Satire and Society in Ancient Rome." Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1989, 69-87.
* Muecke, Frances. "Law, Rhetoric, and Genre in Horace, Satires 2.1." In: Harrison, Stephen J., ed. "Homage to Horace." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 203-218.
* Roberts, Michael. "Horace Satires 2.5: Restrained Indignation," "American Journal of Philology" 105 (1984) 426-33.
* Rothaus Caston, Ruth. "The Fall of the Curtain (Horace S. 2.8)." "Transactions of the American Philological Association" 127 (1997) 233-56.
* Sallmann, Klaus. "Satirische Technik in Horaz' Erbschleichersatire (s. 2, 5)." "Hermes" 98 (1970) 178-203.

External links

* [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/hor_intr.html Satires I and II in the original Latin]
* [http://www.klassphil.uni-muenchen.de/~stroh/BibHor02.htm#11 Scholarly bibliography selected by Wilfried Stroh (Munich)]

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