One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently abewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream ofancient sa... » 

One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently abewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream ofancient satire it is also something recognizably apart and utterly originalvisibly a novel it is yet somehow not a novel at all ...P. v. «