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"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.

ISBN-13

9780452010055

ISBN-10

0452010055

Weight

0.38 Pounds

Dimensions

5.36 x 0.50 x 7.93 In

List Price

$15.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

-

Pages

192 pages

Publisher

Plume

Published On

1983-11-01



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