Petronius,
PETRONIUS (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satiric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (A.D. 41-54) and Nero (A.D. 54-68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by da...
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London : New York :
W. Heinemann ; Macmillan,
1913
London : New York : W. Heinemann ; Putnam, 1919 London : New York : W. Heinemann; Macmillan, 1925 London, New York, W. Heinemann; The Macmillan Co., 1913 London, New York, W. Heinemann; The Macmillan co., 1925 London, New York, W.Heinemann; Macmillan, 1913 London, New York, W. Heinemann ; The Macmillan co., 1913 London, New York, 1913 London : New York : 1913 |
| Series: | The Loeb classical library
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| Summary: | PETRONIUS (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satiric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (A.D. 41-54) and Nero (A.D. 54-68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was a governor of the province Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a consul, showing himself a man of vigour when this was required. Later he lapsed into indulgence (or assumed the mask of vice) and became a close friend of Nero, being looked on as a supreme judge or referee of refined taste. Accused by jealous Tigellinus of disloyalty and condemned, with self-opened veins bandaged he conversed lightly with his friends, dined, drowsed, sent to Nero a survey of Nero's sexual deeds, and so died, A.D. 66. The surviving parts of his romance Satyricon (title is not certain) is a medley of philosophy and real life, of prose and verse, held together in a fictitious story of the disreputable adventures of Encolpius and two companions Ascyltus and Giton. In the course of their wanderings they attend a showy and wildly extravagant dinner given by a rich freedman Trimalchio whose guests talk about themselves and life in general. Other incidents are a shipwreck and somewhat lurid proceedings in South Italy. The work is written partly in pure Latin of the 'Silver Age', but sometimes purposely in a more vulgar style; and parodies and otherwise attacks bad taste in literature, pedantry and hollow society The Apocolocyntosis 'Pumpkinification' (instead of deification) is probably by SENECA the wealthy philosopher and courtier (c. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65). It is a medley of prose and verse and a political satire on the Emperor Claudius written soon after he died in A.D. 54 and was deified |
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| Item Description: | Bibliography: p. xix-xxii Index: p.410-418 Latin and English on opposite pages Reprint of the 1913 ed This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 418 p front.(port.) 17 cm. xii, 418 pages, 1 leaf ; 17 cm xxii, 418 p front.(port.) 17 cm. xxii, 418 p. ; 17 cm xxii, 418 p., 1 17 cm. xxii, 418 p., 1 l 17 cm. xxii, 418 p., [1] leaf of plate : ill., ports. ; 17 cm xxii, 418 p., 17 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. xix-xxii Bibliography: p.xix-xxii Bibliography: pages xix-xxii Includes bibliographies and index |