The Satyricon (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gaius Petronius Arbiter
- First Published: 60
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: First century
- Setting: Italy
- Principal Characters: Encolpius, Ascyltus, Gito, Eumolpus, Trimalchio
- 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 Story:
Encolpius railed at the growth of artificiality in modern rhetoric and the ill-prepared students who came to the school. Agamemnon, the professor, agreed with him but placed the blame entirely on parents who refused to make their children study. Weary of the dispute and far gone in drink, Encolpius fled the school. An old woman, who made indecent proposals to him, showed him the way back to his inn.
Gito, his sixteen-year-old slave, had prepared supper, but the comely boy was crying: Ascyltus had made violent love to him. Encolpius was soothing the boy with...
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