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9781444306071

Petronius: A Handbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444306071

  • ISBN10:

    1444306073

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-02-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. 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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath
Map
Reading the Satyrica
Petronius and Greek Literature
Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition
Letting the Page Run On: Poetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the Satyrica
Sex in the Satyrica: Outlaws in Literatureland
The Satyrica and Neronian Culture
Freedmen in the Satyrica
A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market: Reading Petronius to Write Economic History
At Home with the Dead: Roman Funeral Traditions and Trimalchio's Tomb
Freedmen's Cribs: Domestic Vulgarity on the Bay of Naples
Petronius's Satyrica and the Novel in English
Fellini-Satyricon: Petronius and Film
Bibliography
Index locorum
General Index
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