The Satyricon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Petronius, Kristi M. Wilson (Introduction), Oscar Wilde (Translator)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  The Satyricon offers a mocking, insider's glimpse into the most excessively decadent, cruel, and contradictory aspects of life in Nero's Rome. A series of wandering, debauchery-filled tales, starring a picaresque anti-hero named Encolpius, the text leaves no stone unturned in its relentlessly humorous battle against all forms of bad taste. It is considered by many to be the crown jewel of Roman literary achievement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411466708
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	453 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Most of what we know about Gaius Petronius (or Petronius Arbiter) comes from Tacitus' Annals. Herein, we learn that Petronius' lifestyle mocked that of the hard-working Marcus Catoesque, "new man" of the Roman Republic. He is said to have slept during the day and to have worked at night in the science of pleasure.