books.google.co.uk - In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Satire_and_the_Threat_of_Speech.html?id=wgfVT8zUVmAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSatire and the Threat of Speech
