Petronius
  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Petronius by Jonathan R. W. Prag, Ian D. Repath, Jonathan R. W. Prag,Ian D. Repath in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Illustrations
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Reading the Satyrica
  11. 2 Petronius and Greek Literature
  12. 3 Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition
  13. 4 Letting the Page Run On
  14. 5 Sex in the Satyrica
  15. 6 The Satyrica and Neronian Culture
  16. 7 Freedmen in the Satyrica
  17. 8 A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market
  18. 9 At Home with the Dead
  19. 10 Freedmen’s Cribs
  20. 11 Petronius’s Satyrica and the Novel in English
  21. 12 Fellini-Satyricon
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index locorum
  24. General Index