Satyricon.

Arbiter, Petronius.

Satyricon. - London : Alma Books, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (225 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction; Note on the Text; Acknowledgements; Satyricon; Poems; From the Fragments; Appendices; Appendix 1: Before our Text Begins; Appendix 2: The Main Characters in the Satyricon; Appendix 3: Tacitus on Petronius; Appendix 4: Some Later Mentions of Petronius's work; Appendix 5: Two Earlier English Versions of the Satyricon; Appendix 6: Fellini-Satyricon; Notes.

Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the ""Satyricon"" plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empire's seamy underbelly.



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Petronius Arbiter--Translations into English.
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D. --Humor.


Satire, Latin--Translations into English.


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