The Satyricon — Complete
Title | The Satyricon — Complete PDF eBook |
Author | Petronius Arbiter |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2022-09-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Satyricon — Complete" by Petronius Arbiter. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Satyrica of Petronius
Title | The Satyrica of Petronius PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Severy-Hoven |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2014-06-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0806145900 |
In The Satyrica of Petronius, Beth Severy-Hoven makes the masterpiece, with its flights of language and vision of Roman culture around the time of Nero, accessible to a new generation of students of Latin.
A Reading of Petronius' Satyrica
Title | A Reading of Petronius' Satyrica PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Fratantuono |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2023-08-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1666933066 |
Few surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronian courtier and eventual victim Petronius. Fragmentary, opaque, and enigmatic, at times it seems that deception and obfuscation are the favorite tricks of its author. A Reading of Petronius’ Satyricon offers a fresh look at this genre-defying masterpiece, proceeding episode by episode and scene by scene through a vision of the hell that humanity has fashioned for itself. Petronius mercilessly and exactingly appraises Rome’s embrace of the Golden Age dreams of the Augustan principate, judging his fellow citizens and himself by the yardstick of the Neronian reign that broods over them like an avenging specter. Petronius' Satyricon offers medicine for ambulatory corpses, a prescription that consists of notifying the dead of the diagnosis, and of pointing out the inevitable and eminently logical antidote for those consumed by insatiable hunger and unfulfillable longing. Bitterly sardonic and preternaturally serene, Lee Fratantuono’s reading reveals Petronius to be nothing less than the ultimate literary voice of a dying dynasty, a prose and poetic verbal magician of serious intention, a virtuoso in the art of unmasking the ghoulish horror and inconsolable sadness that lurk often just below the surface of the comic.
A Commentary on The Satyrica of Petronius
Title | A Commentary on The Satyrica of Petronius PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Schmeling |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780199567713 |
The Satyrica is a thrilling piece of literature credited to Petronius and written under the Roman emperor Nero. Schmeling's commentary offers readers an insightful analysis of this historically important text through philological, linguistic, historical, and narratological discussions, while highlighting issues surrounding its authorship.
Reading Petronius
Title | Reading Petronius PDF eBook |
Author | Niall W. Slater |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Petronius
Title | Petronius PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan R. W. Prag |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2012-12-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118556631 |
Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading
The Hidden Author
Title | The Hidden Author PDF eBook |
Author | Gian Biagio Conte |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520918509 |
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close reading with a significant, original theoretical model. At the heart of his interpretation, Conte reveals the technique of the "hidden author" that Petronius employs at the expense of his characters, in particular the teller of the story, Enclopius. By remaining hidden outside the narrative, Petronius invites the reader to smile at the folies de grandeur that occur in a culture of scholars and declaimers. Yet as Conte shows, behind the parody and inexhaustible humor of the Satyricon lies an unexpectedly serious lament. For those familiar with the Satyricon, as well as for new readers, Conte's book will be a reliable, enjoyable guide to the wonders the Satyricon contains.