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Horace, Swift, Juvenal, satire as Gilbert Highet saw it. Gulliver who? Sophocles and Racine. Socrates dissed. Seneca mocked an emperor, paved way for dissenting Christians.

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Jim Bowman
Nov 13, 2024

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Horace, Swift, Juvenal, satire as Gilbert Highet saw it. Gulliver who? Sophocles and Racine. Socrates dissed. Seneca mocked an emperor, paved way for dissenting Christians.
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The Roman poet Horace is a satirist who liked people and wanted to amuse and correct them.

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