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Sermonum liber secundus (also known as "Satires II"), is a collection of eight satirical poems that the Roman poet Horace
Horace

This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English language world as Horace, was the leading Roman Empire Lyric poetry during the time of Augustus....
 published in 30 BCE as a sequel to his successful first book of satirical poems, Satires I
Sermonum liber primus

Sermonum Liber primus , is a collection of ten satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameter, Horace's Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection....
, 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.






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Sermonum liber secundus (also known as "Satires II"), is a collection of eight satirical poems that the Roman poet Horace
Horace

This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English language world as Horace, was the leading Roman Empire Lyric poetry during the time of Augustus....
 published in 30 BCE as a sequel to his successful first book of satirical poems, Satires I
Sermonum liber primus

Sermonum Liber primus , is a collection of ten satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameter, Horace's Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection....
, 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
Sermonum liber primus

Sermonum Liber primus , is a collection of ten satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameter, Horace's Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection....
, 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.

Selected Bibliography

(only for Satires II - see always also the bibliography for Satires I
Sermonum liber primus

Sermonum Liber primus , is a collection of ten satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameter, Horace's Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection....
)

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.


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