The Satyricon (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Gaius Petronius Arbiter
- First Published: 60
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Satire
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Slavery or slaves, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Adultery, Shipwrecks, Italy or Italians, Greek or Roman times, First century, Paganism
- Locales: Italy
The Work
In classical antiquity prose fiction was regarded as a low form of writing and the arts, not bound by traditions of good taste or proper literary convention. The Satyricon, attributed to one of the emperor Nero’s courtiers, represents a brilliant mix of prose and verse and of conventional literary idiom and vulgar language. It satirizes and parodies the human absurdities and spectacular failures of contemporary Roman society. Petronius’ depictions of his protagonists and their equally disreputable acquaintances are icily drawn; the outrageous, the obscene,...
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