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The Satyricon
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ISBN10: 0452010055
ISBN13: 9780452010055
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Nov 1 1983
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780452010055
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Nov 1 1983
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
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.
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