Satires

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Satires is a collection of poetic works by the Roman poet Horace that humorously critiques social norms, human folly, and everyday life in Augustan Rome.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Horatian satire 1
Satire 1.1 1
Satire 1.4 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin literature work
didactic poem
poetry collection
alsoKnownAs Sermones
approximateDateOfComposition c. 35–30 BC
associatedWith Maecenas
author Horace
contains Satires of Horace
surface form: Satires Book 1

Satires self-linksurface differs
surface form: Satires Book 2
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
firstBookDateOfPublication c. 35 BC
followedBy Epodes
Odes
genre satire
hasNotableSatire Satires self-linksurface differs
surface form: Satire 1.1

Satire 1.3
Satires self-linksurface differs
surface form: Satire 1.4

Satires self-linksurface differs
surface form: Satire 1.6

Satires self-linksurface differs
surface form: Satire 2.6
influenced Juvenal
Persius
Roman verse satire tradition
languageRegister colloquial Latin
literaryForm hexameter poetry
literaryInfluence Attic Old Comedy
surface form: Greek Old Comedy

Lucilius
literaryMovement Augustan literature
surface form: Augustan poetry
meter dactylic hexameter
numberOfBooks 2
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Horace’s poetic corpus
philosophicalInfluence Epicureanism
Stoicism
preservationStatus extant
secondBookDateOfPublication c. 30 BC
setting Rome
style conversational tone
moralizing humor
subjectMatter everyday life in Rome
human folly
social norms in Roman society
theme contentment with simple life
critique of ambition
critique of greed
friendship
moderation
patronage relationships
timePeriod Augustan age

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Referenced by (8)

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Horatius notableWork Satires
Imitations of Horace basedOn Satires
this entity surface form: Satires by Horace
Satires contains Satires self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Satires Book 2
Satires hasNotableSatire Satires self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Satire 1.1
Satires hasNotableSatire Satires self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Satire 1.4
Satires hasNotableSatire Satires self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Satire 1.6
Satires hasNotableSatire Satires self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Satire 2.6
Essay on Satire influencedBy Satires
this entity surface form: Horatian satire