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Petronius Arbiter
ISBN: 9780872205116
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition: New edition
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Attributed to the Roman satirist Petronius, a courtier of the emperor Nero, Satyricon c. 65 C.E. may be the first novel one as steamy as many modern bestsellers. Ruden (affiliation unspecified) integrates her translation with ten commentaries about the work and the ancient world, acknowledging Mnller's 1983 edition of Petronius as her main source f
This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but also fresh, and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of Petronius, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work -- as well as such hallmarks 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.
| ISBN | 0872205118 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780872205116
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc | | Volumes | 001 | | Imprint | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 390 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | Cambridge, MA | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2000 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Translator | Sarah Ruben | | Width (mm) | 150 | | Library of Congress | PA6558.E5 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, General | | DEWEY | 873.01 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Map: The World of the Satyricon | | | | | | Satyricon | | 1 | | Pt. 1 | | Introducing Encolpius, Ascyltos, and Giton | | 1 | | Pt. 2 | | Quartilla's Orgy | | 11 | | Pt. 3 | | Trimalchio's Dinner Party | | 18 | | Pt. 4 | | Eumolpus | | 61 | | Pt. 5 | | The Ship of Lichas | | 79 | | Pt. 6 | | Croton | | 94 | | | | Commentaries | | 129 | | 1 | | Who Was Petronius Anyway? | | 129 | | 2 | | What Happened to the Text of the Satyricon? | | 133 | | 3 | | Roman Oratory | | 139 | | 4 | | Ancient Views on Sexuality | | 144 | | 5 | | The Roman Household | | 150 | | 6 | | Roman Dinner Parties | | 163 | | 7 | | Roman Religion | | 168 | | 8 | | Some Literary Influences on the Satyricon | | 173 | | 9 | | Poetry, Prose, and the Satyricon | | 180 | | 10 | | Roman Philosophy in the Satyricon | | 185 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 191 |
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