Petronius,Piero Chiara,P.G. Walsh,Federico Roncoroni
"This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."â€”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 translationâ€”a lively, modern, unexpurgated textâ€”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 Gitonâ€”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.
Classics,Fiction,Poetry,Literature,Literature,Ancient,Roman,Humor,Novels,History,Ancient History,Academic,School
The Satyricon