| The Satyricon Meridian Edition Contributor(s): Petronius (Author), Seneca (Author), Arrowsmith, William (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0452010055 ISBN-13: 9780452010055 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 873.01 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.42" W x 8.03" (0.39 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Mediterranean |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny.--Time The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier. William Arrowsmith's translation--a lively, modern, unexpurgated text--recaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius's picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking adventures of an educated rogue, Encolpius, his handsome serving boy, Giton, and Ascyltus, who lusts after Giton--three impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other men's purses. The Satyricon unfailingly turns every weakness of the flesh, every foible of the mind, to laughter. |