Description
Book SynopsisPetronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the
Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world.
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- Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars
- Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel''s literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception
- Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading
Trade Review"Each chapter includes useful discussion of further readings." (CHOICE, September 2009)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors x
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction
Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath 1
Map 15
1 Reading the Satyrica
Niall W. Slater 16
2 Petronius and Greek Literature
J. R. Morgan 32
3 Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition
Costas Panayotakis 48
4 Letting the Page Run On
Poetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the Satyrica
Victoria Rimell 65
5 Sex in the Satyrica
Outlaws in Literatureland
Amy Richlin 82
6 The Satyrica and Neronian Culture
Caroline Vout 101
7 Freedmen in the Satyrica
Jean Andreau 114
8 A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market
Reading Petronius to Write Economic History
Koenraad Verboven 125
9 At Home with the Dead
Roman Funeral Traditions and Trimalchio's Tomb
Valerie M. Hope 140
10 Freedmen's Cribs
Domestic Vulgarity on the Bay of Naples
Shelley Hales 161
11 Petronius's Satyrica and the Novel in English
Stephen Harrison 181
12 Fellini-Satyricon
Petronius and Film
Joanna Paul 198
Bibliography 218
Index locorum 234
General Index 244
