Does it sound familiar?

Ancient Roman satires for modern times

The 1st-century AD rhetorician Quintillian noted that the satire was a totally and exclusively Roman invention, unlike all other literary genres which the Romans had borrowed from the Greeks, such as the epic narrative, the tragedy, comedy, or lyrical verse.

And it seems to me that the times are ripe, like in the Renaissance, for a rediscovery of the Rom…