Selections From The Satyricon

by Petronius, Leon Danilovics (Illustrator), Gilbert Lawall

Latin students will be able to both manage and enjoy this book, which features a selection of highly entertaining episodes from the Satyricon. The book includes vocabulary and notes that enhance the student's enjoyment of the text.

260 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 1995

About the author

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius

Alternative spellings for Petronius:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius

Reviews

[Joe Donohue · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is difficult not to write satire.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read every line of Latin in this book. Three times. I think I have sections of it memorized at this point. I liked this book because it gave such vocab and notes, but I think it actually may have been too much help. There tended to be more English on the page than Latin.

That said, the Satyricon is so fun! If you want to laugh out loud at a raunchy ancient novel (arguably the first novel) with a bisexual protagonist and lots of sex, crime, and death, do yourself a favor and pick this up. I used the P.G. Walsh translation when I needed to reference an English text.

[Heidi Nemo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I admit that I had to work on this one with the Penguin translation alongside, as my Latin never got good enough to go it alone.
Still, the social critic of his time. In its bizarre ridiculous fragmented grandeur, the Satyricon is a diagnostic tool for the extremely fucked-up collective psyche of 2nd-cent. Romans, not to mention the fact that woman-on-top dildo fucking is at least 1,000 years old. And who says silver age latin is inferior to the earlier, more hemingwayesqe version?

[Richelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Petronius is indeed a filthy pleasure. Whenever I hear people complain the people are more immoral in today's world than ever before, I think back to reading the Satyricon and know that they are wrong. The format of the reader is great and makes picking up vocabulary easy.