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.

This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of the author, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work--as well as such features of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices, households, dinner parties, religion, and philosophy. It offers, in short, a remarkably informative and engaging account of major aspects of Imperial Roman culture as seen through the prism of our first extant novel.

The Satyrica, traditionally attributed to the Neronian courtier Petronius, is a comic-picaresque fiction recalling the narrator's adventures in the early imperial demimonde, including Trimalchio's banquet. Apocolocyntosis (Pumpkinification) is a satirical pamphlet lampooning the death and deification of the emperor Claudius.

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.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...inquit " emeram, sed malui illos Atellanam facere, et choraulen meum iussi Latine cantare." m cum maxime haec dicente Gaio puer Trimalchionis delapsus est. conclamauit familia, nec minus conuiuae, non propter hominem tam putidum, cuius et ceruices fractas libenter uidissent, sed propter malum exitum cenae, ne necesse haberent alienum mortuum plorare. ipse Trimalchio cum grauiter ingemuisset superque bracchium tamquam laesum incubuisset, concurrere medici, et inter primos F ortunata crinibus passis cum scypho, miseramque se atque infelicem proclamauit. nam puer quidem, qui ceciderat, circumibat iam dudum pedes transire H. cornices H. cubicularios, valets-de-chambre: they also waited in the ante'rooms to announce visitors. L. and S. cubicularius, II. baro, s 63 bis. Pers. 5. 138, where uaro has also MS. support. It probably signified "a man." per gradus, Mart. 2. 86. 7 quid si per graciles uias petauri inuitum iubeas subire Ladan? Juv. 14. 265 iactata petauro corpora, Mayor's note. See on petauristarios, 47. odaria. saltare, Ov. Tr. 5. 7. 2s carmina quod pleno saltari nostra theatro scribis. circulos, Mart. 11. 21. 3 rota transmissa totiens intacta petauro. Manil. 5. ua membraue per flammas urbesque emissa flagrantes. cornicines, so Heinsius for MS. cornices. Juv. 3. 3m s 78 nouum acroama, cornicines, in triclinium iussit adduci. s 64. Trimalchio ipse cum tubicines esset imitatus. acroamata tricas, so Biicheler for animalia cromataricas, which is meaning less. s 78 nouum acroama. Heinsius suggested reliqua animalia acroamata ac tricas. Recitations with and without music during the dinner and with the wine were very popular. See on Eomeriatas, s9. Einhard V. Car. inter cenam dum aut aliquod acroan1a...