Satyricon

Name: Satyricon
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ISBN: 9780192839527

ISBN-10: 0192839527

ISBN-13: 9780192839527

Edition: 1999

Authors: Petronius Arbiter, P. G. Walsh

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`The language is refined, the smile not grave,My honest tongue recounts how men behave.'The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre, and recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literature scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean. En route they encounter type-figures the author wickedly satirizes - a teacher in higher education, a libidinous priest, a vulgar freedman turned millionaire, a manicpoet, a superstitious sea-captain and a femme fatale. The novel has fascinated the literary world of Europe ever since, evoking praise…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/19/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



The Satyricon


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction


Select Bibliography



At the School of Rhetoric



Dubious Encounters in the Town



Jealousy at the Lodging



An Episode in the Market



Enter Quartilla, the Priapic Priestess



Dinner at Trimalchio's



Giton Spurns Encolpius for Ascyltus



Eumolpus in the Art Gallery



Reconciliation with Giton; Eumolpus as Rival



The Episode on Ship. Enter Lichas and Tryphaena



The Journey to Croton



The Encounter with Circe



Eumolpus and the Legacy-Hunters


Index and Glossary of Names