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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
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Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a speci
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Pages: 384
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