The Satyricon
Author: Seneca
ISBN: 9780452010055
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Nov 1983
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
"This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."-Time
The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier.
ISBN: 9780452010055
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Nov 1983
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
"This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."-Time
The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier.
William Arrowsmith's translation-a lively, modern, unexpurgated text-recaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius's picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking adventures of an educated rogue, Encolpius, his handsome serving boy, Giton, and Ascyltus, who lusts after Giton-three impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other men's purses. The Satyricon unfailingly turns every weakness of the flesh, every foible of the mind, to laughter.
