Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter - Folio Society edition

Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter

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Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter - Folio Society edition
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Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter

Edition year 2003
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Neil Packer
Translator Frederic Raphael
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 157
Dimensions 28.8 × 19.3 cm

Edition details

Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter. Translated by Frederic Raphael. 7 illustrations by Neil Packer. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated endpapers. Quarter bound in brown cloth with image printed paper sides. 157pp. 28.8x19.3cm.

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Petronius's Satyrica, also known as the Satyricon, follows the wandering Encolpius through a fragmentary world of sexual intrigue, literary argument and social pretension. Its most famous episode, the extravagant dinner given by the wealthy freedman Trimalchio, turns dining into a spectacle of ambition and bad taste. Prose narrative, verse and stories within stories create a restless picture of Roman life. Earthy and sophisticated by turns, this surviving work of ancient fiction exposes the comic distance between the status people claim and the appetites that actually govern them.

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