Companion to Petronius

Name: Companion to Petronius
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ISBN: 9780199245949

ISBN-10: 0199245940

ISBN-13: 9780199245949

Edition: 2002

Authors: Edward Courtney

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This is the first modern commentary on the Satyricon as a whole. Starting with some basic background information, Professor Courtney surveys Petronius' novel sequentially, drawing out the leading themes and motifs of each episode. Thus links and patterns build up. A final chapter looks at the general characteristics of the work, highlighting the abundant use of literary allusion and symbolism, and the treatment of sex. Throughout the book Petronius' work is related to the Greek novel as reconstruction from the later extant specimens suggests that it existed in his own day. Latin and Greek quotations have been translated so that students of classical civilization and of comparative…

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List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Bibliography


Introduction



The Author



Preliminaries



The Novel Genre as Background



The Employment of Verse



First-Person Narrative



The Identity of the Protagonists



The Lost Early Books



Characterization



Book XIV



1-5, Rhetoric



6-11, a Quarrel



12-15, the Stolen Cloak



16.1-26.6, Quartilla and an Orgy



The Feast of Trimalchio



26.7-31.11



32.1-36.8



37.1-41.8



41.9-46.8, Conuiuarum Sermones



47.1-65.2



65.3-78.8



Overview of the Cena



Eumolpus replaces Ascyltos



79-82, Another Quarrel



83-90, In the Picture-Gallery



91-99, In the Inn



The Voyage



The Odyssey and the Wrath of Priapus



100.1-110.5, Lichas and Tryphaena Encountered Again



110.6-112.8, the Widow of Ephesus



113-115, the Shipwreck



Croton



116-117, Laying the Plot for Legacy-Hunting



118, the Literary Theory of Eumolpus



119.1-124.1, the Bellum Ciuile



124.2-125.4, Resumption of Legacy-Hunting



126.1-139.4, Circe



139.5-141.11, Legacy-Hunting Again



Overall Aspects



Mens ingenti flumine litterarum inundata



Sex in Petronius



Symbolism in Petronius


Addenda


Index