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Petronius

Born

Massalia (Marseille), Roman empire

Died

January 21, 0065

Genre

Humor and Comedy, Classics

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People credit Roman courtier Gaius Petronius, known as Petronius Arbiter, with writing the Satyricon .

People generally think that he during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar, which began in 54, authored this satirical novel.

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Alternative spellings for Petronius:

Brazilian Portuguese: Petrônio
French: Pétrone
Spanish: Petronio
Greek: Πετρώνιος

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	The Satyricon by Petronius, Piero Chiara (Translator), P.G. Walsh (Translator), Federico Roncoroni (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 9,707 ratings — published 60 — 877 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius, Seneca, J.P. Sullivan (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 1,568 ratings — published 66 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trimalchio's Feast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #21) by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan (Translator) 3.22 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 66 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and the Fragments by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan 3.97 avg rating — 67 ratings — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections From The Satyricon by Petronius, Leon Danilovics (Illustrator), Gilbert Lawall 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow of Ephesus 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon Reliquiae by Petronius, Konrad Müller (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World's Oldest Short Stories: Tales from Ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Rome by Petronius, Apuleius, Theocritus 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uczta Trymalchiona by Petronius, Petroniusz, Leopold Staff (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Petronius (?)

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

tags: ancient, humour, irony, latin, nonsense, satyre, stupidity, text, the-satyricon, trimalchio

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“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
― Petronius Arbiter

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“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

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The Iliad by Homer, 801, 614 pages

38 votes, 25.0%

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1826, 558 pages

32 votes, 21.1%

Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard, 1887, 284 pages

20 votes, 13.2%

Mr. Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1851, 80 pages

19 votes, 12.5%

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896, 589 pages

18 votes, 11.8%

The Satyricon by Petronius, 60, 272 pages

10 votes, 6.6%

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, 121, 288 pages

9 votes, 5.9%

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding, 2742, 343 pages

6 votes, 3.9%

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