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London Unexpurgatedby PetroniusISBN 0450003183 (0-450-00318-3)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Millionaire's Dinner Partyby PetroniusISBN 0199120250 (0-19-912025-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Petronius: Senecaby Petronius , M. HeseltineISBN 0674990161 (0-674-99016-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Petronius: Seneca'Book summary:Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (4154 CE) and Nero (5468). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was governor of the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a consul, showing himself a man of vigour when this was required. Later he lapsed into indulgence (or assumed the mask of vice) and became a close friend of Nero. Accused by jealous Tigellinus of disloyalty and condemned, with self-opened veins he conversed lightly with friends, dined, drowsed, sent to Nero a survey of Nero's sexual deeds, and so died, 66 CE.
The surviving parts of Petronius's romance Satyricon mix philosophy and real life, prose and verse, in a tale of the disreputable adventures of Encolpius and two companions, Ascyltus and Giton. In the course of their wanderings they attend a showy and wildly extravagant dinner given by a rich freedman, Trimalchio, whose guests talk about themselves and life in general. Other incidents are a shipwreck and somewhat lurid proceedings in South Italy. The work is written partly in pure Latin, but sometimes purposely in a more vulgar style. It parodies and otherwise attacks bad taste in literature, pedantry and hollow society.
Apocolocyntosis, "Pumpkinification" (instead of deification), is probably by Seneca the wealthy philosopher and courtier (ca. 4 BCE65 CE). It is a medley of prose and verse and a political satire on the Emperor Claudius written soon after he died in 54 CE and was deified.
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The Poems of Petroniusby Petronius , M. HeseltineISBN 1555405886 (1-55540-588-6)
Softcover, Amer Philosophical Assn
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Satyrgeschichtenby PetroniusISBN 3050019840 (3-05-001984-0)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons Australia, Limited, John
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Satyricaby Petronius , Branham, KinneyISBN 0460875477 (0-460-87547-7)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satyrica'Book summary:Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his charms, are invited to a gargantuan banquet hosted by the prodigal, pompous, newly rich Trimalchio. When the feast turns into a riot, the two, joined by the down-on-his-luck poet Eumolpus, leave town quickly to avoid trouble. So begins the Satyrica, a bizarre odyssey through the carnivalesque landscape of Nero's empire.[via]
The author of the Satyrica, Petronius, had been Nero's intimate and advisor on all matters of artistic taste and elegance but a jealous rival turned Nero against him. No longer enduring "the suspense of fear or of hope," Petronius eluded his former patron by ending his own life. His novel has lived on, preserving for centuries tales of a time when virtue and vice, power and money, human comedy and human cruelty, mixed and melded unpredictably.
The translation is accurate and contemporary. In addition, a chronology, introduction, and commentary offer the reader background on Petronius's social milieu and on the fascinating complexity of his seemingly low-brow novel's poetic structure.-
The Satyriconby PetroniusISBN 1840221100 (1-84022-110-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satyricon'Book summary: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 southern Mediterranean 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 intentions of the story and the later history of its literary influence. [via]
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- Satyricon: ISBN 0140448055 (0-14-044805-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - The Satyricon: ISBN 0192839527 (0-19-283952-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Satyricon: ISBN 0452010055 (0-452-01005-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Satyricon: ISBN 0872205118 (0-87220-511-8)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - The Satyricon: ISBN 0192833057 (0-19-283305-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Satyricon: ISBN 0452009642 (0-452-00964-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Satyricon: ISBN 1840221100 (1-84022-110-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
- Satyricon: ISBN 0140448055 (0-14-044805-5)
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Satyriconby P.G. Walsh, Petronius ArbiterISBN 0198150121 (0-19-815012-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satyricon'Book summary: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 southern Mediterranean in the age of Nero, encountering en route type-figures whom the author wishes to satirize--a professor, a libidinous priestess, a vulgar freedman turned millionaire, a manic poet, a superstitious sea-captain, and a femme fatale. P.G. Walsh captures the spirit of the original in this new and lively translation; his introduction and detailed notes provide the serious student with a comprehensive guide to the meanings and intentions of the story. [via]
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Satyriconby Sarah Ruden, Petronius ArbiterISBN 087220510X (0-87220-510-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Satyricon and Seneca the Apocolocyntosisby Petronius , Lucius Annaeus Seneca, J. P. SullivanISBN 0140444890 (0-14-044489-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Satyricon and the Fragmentsby Petronius , J. P. SullivanISBN 014044159X (0-14-044159-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Satyrucaby PetroniusISBN 0460877666 (0-460-87766-6)
Hardcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Satyricon Reliquiaeby Petronius , K. MuellerISBN 3598715803 (3-598-71580-3)
Softcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc
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