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Few surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronian courtier and eventual victim Petronius. Fragmentary, opaque, and enigmatic, at times it seems that deception and obfuscation are the favorite tricks of its author. A Reading of Petronius’ Satyricon offers a fresh look at this genre-defying masterpiece, proceeding episode by episode and scene by scene through a vision of the hell that humanity has fashioned for itself. Petronius mercilessly and exactingly appraises Rome’s embrace of the Golden Age dreams of the Augustan principate, judging his fellow citizens and himself by the yardstick of the Neronian reign that broods over them like an avenging specter. Petronius' Satyricon offers medicine for ambulatory corpses, a prescription that consists of notifying the dead of the diagnosis, and of pointing out the inevitable and eminently logical antidote for those consumed by insatiable hunger and unfulfillable longing. Bitterly sardonic and preternaturally serene, Lee Fratantuono’s reading reveals Petronius to be nothing less than the ultimate literary voice of a dying dynasty, a prose and poetic verbal magician of serious intention, a virtuoso in the art of unmasking the ghoulish horror and inconsolable sadness that lurk often just below the surface of the comic.
The Satyrica is a thrilling piece of literature credited to Petronius and written under the Roman emperor Nero. Schmeling's commentary offers readers an insightful analysis of this historically important text through philological, linguistic, historical, and narratological discussions, while highlighting issues surrounding its authorship.
In The Satyrica of Petronius, Beth Severy-Hoven makes the masterpiece, with its flights of language and vision of Roman culture around the time of Nero, accessible to a new generation of students of Latin.
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...
Theatrum Arbitri is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, and fabula Atellana) on the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyrica. The theatrical assessment of this novel is carried out at the levels of plot-construction, characterization, language, and reading of the text as if it were the narrative equivalent of a farcical staged piece with the theatrical structure of a play produced before an audience. The analysis follows the order of each of the scenes in the novel. The reader will also find a brief general commentary on the less discussed scenes of the Satyrica, and a comprehensive account of the theatre of the mimes and its main features.
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.
This is the first modern commentary on Petronius' Satyrica. It begins with basic background information, then surveys each episode in order that leading themes emerge. Finally, it gives an overview of Petronius' use of literary allusion and symbolism, and of his treatment of sex. All Latin and Greek quotations have been translated so that this volume may benefit both students of classical and comparative literature.
Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading
