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  • Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
    Petronius

    Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis

    Two rollicking Roman satires. The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger whole. It takes the form...
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  • The Satyrica of Petronius, 50: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyrica of Petronius, 50: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review

    Winner of the Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South's (CAMWS). A comic masterpiece of classical antiquity, the Satyrica (or Satyricon) of Petronius is a tantalizing work of fiction--part poetry, part prose, hilariously vulgar, exquisitely elegant, its...
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  • The Satyricon by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyricon

    The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they wander...
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  • The Satyricon by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyricon

    The marvelously entertaining parody of imperial RomeOne of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world, The Satyricon offers an unmatched satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos. It recounts the adventures...
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  • The Satyricon by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyricon

    "This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."--Time The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier.William Arrowsmith's...
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  • The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis

    Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses...
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