![]() ![]() Each of these examples illustrates important features of Latin intertextuality in the comic mode. ![]() After a consideration of the nature of parody, I will discuss four examples from this period, Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Persius' first satire and coliambic preface, an anonymous fragment of bucolic poetry (the first Einsiedeln Eclogue) and a section from Petronius’ Satyrica. The cultural and political climate of Nero's Rome provides a useful testing ground for an approach to literary parody that grounds the phenomenon in the cultural practices of the Romans more broadly. Literary parody was a pervasive technique of Roman writers and the Neronian period is a particularly rich source for it. ![]()
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