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  The Satyricon (Paperback) By (author) Petronius

  

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  Short Description for The Satyricon"One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently a bewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream of ancient satire, it is also something recognizably apart and utterly original; visibly a novel, it is yet somehow not a novel at all ..."--P. v.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
  • Published: 27 June 1991
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry & Drama | Classics | Adventure | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780452010055 ISBN 10: 0452010055
  • Sales rank: 311,732

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• The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier. William Arrowsmith's translation--a lively, modern, unexpurgated text--recaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius's picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking adventures of an educated rogue, Encolpius, his handsome serving boy, Giton, and Ascyltus, who lusts after Giton--three impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other men's purses. The Satyricon unfailingly turns every weakness of the flesh, every foible of the mind, to laughter.