The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes by Petronius Arbiter

"The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes" by Petronius Arbiter is a scholarly supplement to a Latin work written in the late 1st century AD. This volume provides editorial annotations for a picaresque satire following the narrator Encolpius and his companions through a series of bizarre, often erotic adventures in ancient Rome. The notes illuminate the text's mixture of prose and verse, its social commentary on lower-class Roman life, and its most famous sequence: the extravagant dinner party hosted by the vulgar freedman Trimalchio. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Petronius Arbiter, 20-66
Translator Firebaugh, W. C.
Title The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon
Credits Produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 63.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
Subject Rome -- Fiction
Subject Satire, Latin -- Translations into English
Category Text
EBook-No. 5223
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 28, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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