Petronius Arbiter

The Satyricon

Petronius

A bitingly comic portrait of the vulgar Trimalchio and his debauched, drunken Roman banquet, from the outrageous Latin masterpiece The Satyricon.

Trimalchio's Feast

Le satiricon

Pétrone

Alfred Ernout

L'Antiquite s'est montree fort avare de renseignements sur l'auteur du Satiricon. On l'identifie le plus souvent au Petrone dont parle Tacite dans Les Annales (16, 18-19): l'auteur du Satiricon serait ce debauche, surnomme l'arbitre des elegances, qui s'imposa un temps a la cour de Neron, avant d'etre contraint au suicide, victime des medisances qui l'avaient fait rentrer en disgrace. Le texte n'a guere connu un meilleur traitement puisque seuls des extraits des errances d'Ascylte et d'Encolpe nous ont ete transmis. Notre edition presente rapidement les elements de biographie relatifs a Petrone avant d'analyser en profondeur les diverses influences qui marquent ce texte, place sous le signe de la variete (satura signifie d'abord melange& en latin) et notamment ce qu'il doit au roman grec. L'ordre de presentation des extraits est longuement justifie tandis que l'histoire du texte est relatee en detail et completee par une liste commentee des principales editions de Petrone. Des notes accompagnent la lecture et permettent de se reperer sans difficulte dans le texte. L'ouvrage est en outre enrichi par l'ensemble des fragments de Petrone ou qui lui ont ete attribues, ainsi que par un Index Personarum suivi d'un Index Metrorum.

Le Satiricon

Cena Trimalchionis

Excerpt from The Satyricon But suppose that he was an Epicurean, we ought not to look ou' him with an Eye of that Injustice, which the Vulgar generally do on Epicurus himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Satyricon (Classic Reprint)

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The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

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As for the ladies if any too-discerning antiquated hypocrite (for only such I fear) shou'd be angry with the beastly author; let the work be my advocate where the little liberties I take as modestly betray a broad meaning as blushing when a man tells the story.

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Petronius (Arbiter.)

Satyricon

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.

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The Satyricon - Complete

The Satyricon, or Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as prosimetrum); serious and comic elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with the Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass) of Apuleius, classical scholars often describe it as a "Roman novel", without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form.The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, a retired, famous gladiator of the area, and his slave and sexual partner Giton, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy. It is one of the two most extensive witnesses to the Roman novel, the only other being the fully extant Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which has significant differences in style and plot. Satyricon is also regarded as useful evidence for the reconstruction of how lower classes lived during the early Roman Empire.

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The Satyricon of Petronius

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 through the cities of the southernMediterranean in the age of Nero, encountering en route type-figures whom the author wishes to satirize. P.G. Walsh captures the spirit of the original in this new and lively translation. His introduction and detailed notes provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to the meanings and intentionsof the story and the later history of its literary influence.

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