Satura

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Satura

 

a genre of Roman literature, originally a combination of poetic and prose works of varied form and content. Classical sources mention the saturae of Ennius, Naevius, and Pacuvius, and a fragment of the Menippean Satires of Marcus Terentius Varro has survived. The saturae of Gaius Lucilius were the first to assume the critical tone that was, in the first and second centuries, to become the essential element in the concept of satire (satira).

REFERENCES

Istoriia rimskoi literatury, vol. 1. Edited by S. I. Sobolevskii [et al.]. Moscow, 1959. Pages 150–54, 243–44.
Kroll, W. “Satura.” In Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 3. Stuttgart, 1921. Columns 192–200.

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