Two neo-latin menippean satires -
KORTE INHOUD
?Justus Lipsius? ?Somnium? (1581) and Petrus Cunaeus? ?Sardi Venales? (1612), have not been edited since Georg Christoph Winter?s 1720 edition (?). This modern edition is therefore especially welcome. Its informative introduction, summarising the works and setting them in historical context, and the editors? copious citations of the classical authors quotes should help readers unfamiliar with these later imitations of Seneca. Both Lipsius and his imitator, Cunaeus, employ the dream convention to frame their attacks on contemporary philologians (and, in the ?Sardi venues?, theologians). Lipsius attends a meeting of the Roman Senate presided over by Cicero who, with Sallust and Ovid, conducts the prosecution. Lipsius skilfully adapts large portions of Cicero?s and Sallust?s writing to his satiric purpose but, since he can hardly use Ovid so directly, he instead evokes his style and emotion. Lipsius? range of quotation, in fact, is truly astonishing; he cites or paraphrases from every major classical author and...
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