The Satyricon

by Gaius Petronius Arbiter

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  • Arrowsmith, William. "Luxury and Death in the Satyricon." Arion V, No. 3 (Autumn 1966): 304-31. (Explores the theme he finds in the Cena segment of the Satyricon—an excess of luxury that, when uncontrolled, can bring death.)
  • Beck, Roger. "Eumolpus Poeta, Eumolpus Fabulator: A Study of Characterization in the Satyricon." Phoenix XXXIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1979): 239-53. (Contends that the many-sided characterization of the poet Eumolpus in the Satyricon demonstrates Petronius's sophistication.)
  • Best, Edward E., Jr. "Attitudes toward Literacy Reflected in Petronius." Classical Journal 61 (November 1965): 72-76. (Argues that many passages in the Satyricon suggest a widespread literacy among the common Roman people.)
  • Boyce, Bret. The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1991, 113 p. (Comprehensive study of the characteristics of the language of the freedmen in the Cena and how Petronius uses language to portray character.)
  • Cameron, Averil. "Myth and Meaning in Petronius: Some Modern Comparisons." Latomus XXIX, No. 2 (April-June 1970): 397-425. (Examines how Petronius uses epic—specifically the Odyssey—to demonstrate the emptiness of modern life.)
  • Cameron, Averil. "Petronius and Plato." The Classical Quarterly XIX, No. 2 (November 1969): 367-70. (Discusses how Petronius's character Habinnas is modeled after Alcibiades from Plato's Symposium.)
  • Connors, Catherine. Petronius the Poet: Verse and Literary Tradition in the "Satyricon." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 166 p. (Examines the poems of the Satyricon, their implications, and their relation to mime, Menippean satire, and prosimetric Greek fiction.)
  • Courtney, E. "Parody and Literary Allusion in Menippean Satire." Philologus 106 (1962): 86-100. (Contends that the Satyricon is a parody of the novel.)
  • Currie, H. MacL. "Petronius and Ovid." Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History V (1989): 317-35. (Discusses Ovid's influence on Petronius.)
  • de la Mare, Albinia Catherine. "The Return of Petronius to Italy." In Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Richard William Hunt, edited by J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson, pp. 220-54. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. (Describes various fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Satyricon and their derivations.)
  • Dietrich, B. C. "Petronius: Satyr of Satirist." Movimento Europeo per la Difesa del Latino XVII, No. 1 (January-June 1970): 17-43. (Discusses the Satyricon's sharp literary criticism and its concern with the human condition; also summarizes its plots and characters.)
  • George, Peter. "Style and Character in the Satyricon." Arion V, No. 3 (Autumn 1966): 336-58. (Presents a character and content study of the Satyricon based on a critical analysis of its style.)
  • Heseltine, Michael. Introduction to Petronius. Translated by Michael Heseltine, revised by E. H. Warmington, pp. ix-xlvi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. (Introduction that includes discussion of assorted manuscripts and editions.)
  • Jones, Frederick M. "Realism in Petronius." Groningen Colloquia on the Novel IV (1991): 105-20. (Contends that the contemporary audience of the Satyricon would have considered what modern critics call realism as verisimilitude, but with a radical subjective element.)
  • Lees, Francis Noel. "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Satura: Petronius and The Waste Land." In T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, edited by Allen Tate, pp. 345-54. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. (Examines the influence of the Satyricon on Eliot's The Waste Land.)
  • Panayotakis, Costas. Theatrum Arbitri: Theatrical Elements in the Satyrica of Petronius. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1995, 225 p. (Examines possible influences of Roman comic drama on the Satyricon.)
  • Ramage, Edwin S., David L. Sigsbee, and Sigmund C. Fredericks. "Seneca and Petronius: Menippean Satire under Nero." In their Roman Satirists and Their Satire: The Fine Art of Criticism in Ancient Rome, pp. 89-113. Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1974. (Discusses difficulties in categorizing the Satyricon before explaining why it is best viewed as a sophisticated Menippean satire.)
  • Rankin, H. D. "Saturnalian Wordplay and Apophoreta in Satyricon 56." Classica et Mediaevalia XXIII, No. 1-2 (1962): 134-42. (Presents many examples of word-play and puns found in the Satyricon.)
  • Rankin, H. D. "Some Themes of Concealment and Pretence in Petronius' Satyricon." Latomus XXVIII, No. 1 (January-March 1969): 99-119. (Explains how the elements of concealment, secrecy, and social pretense that occur in the Satyricon mirror characteristics Petronius saw in his own society.)
  • Reeve, M. D. "Petronius." In Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, edited by L. D. Reynolds, pp. 295-300. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. (Discusses various early manuscripts of the Satyricon and how they were used by other writers.)
  • Richardson, Wade. Reading and Variant in Petronius: Studies in the French Humanists and Their Manuscript Sources. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993, 187 p. (Studies the textual tradition of the Satyricon and evaluates different versions of the text.)
  • Sandy, Gerald. "Petronius and the Tradition of the Interpolated Narrative." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 101 (1970): 463-76. (Discusses how and why Petronius introduces his framed narratives.)
  • Sandy, Gerald. "Satire in the Satyricon." American Journal of Philology XC, No. 3 (July 1969): 293-303. (Explains that the Satyricon is both amoral and satirical.)
  • Schmeling, Gareth. "The Satyricon: Poems in Search of a Genre." The Classical Bulletin 47, No. 4 (February, 1971): 49-53. (Rejects the designation of either satire or parody for the Satyricon, instead concluding that it should be identified (with some qualifications) as a novel or romance.)
  • Schmeling, Gareth. "The Satyricon: The Sense of an Ending." Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie 134, Nos. 3-4 (1991): 352-77. (Concentrates on the "outrageous" and always unpredictable endings and projected endings of episodes of the Satyricon.)
  • Shey, H. James. "Petronius and Plato's Gorgias." The Classical Bulletin 47, No. 6 (April, 1971): 81-4. (Offers evidence that many motifs dramatized by Petronius were borrowed from Plato's Gorgias.)
  • Slater, Niall W. "'Against Interpretation': Petronius and Art Criticism." Ramus 16, Nos. 1-2 (1987): 165-76. (Contends that Petronius parodies the ideal of mimesis in the visual arts.)
  • Sochatoff, A. Fred. "Imagery in the Poems of the Satyricon." Classical Journal 65 (May 1970): 340-44. (Examines how Petronius reveals his characters through use of imagery in their poetry.)
  • Tacitus. "Testamonia." Arion V, No. 3 (Autumn 1966): 273-74. (Provides a vivid sketch of how the jealousy of a rival confidant of Nero's led to Petronius's death. Tacitus's Annals, where this excerpt first appeared, was written in the second century.)
  • Walsh, P. G. "The Satyricon." In his The Roman Novel: The "Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" of Apuleius, pp. 67-110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. (Overview of the Satyricon that discusses its origin, purpose, action, tone, and humor.)

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