The Satyricon

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 11/01/1983
ISBN: 9780452010055
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.42w x 0.54d