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The Satyricon (Meridian classics)
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The Satyricon (Meridian classics) Paperback - 1983

by Petronius, Seneca

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  • Title The Satyricon (Meridian classics)
  • Author Petronius, Seneca
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume, New York
  • Date 1983-11-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # D48042
  • ISBN 9780452010055 / 0452010055
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.42 x 0.54 in (20.40 x 13.77 x 1.37 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1450
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Mediterranean
  • Library of Congress subjects Satire, Latin, Rome - History - Nero, 54-68
  • Dewey Decimal Code 873.01

First line

[1] "But look here,"I protested, "aren't you Professors hounded by just this same Furies of inflated language and pompous heroics?

About the author

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier. He was the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel written during the Neronian era.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born at Cordoba in Spain around 4 BC. He rose to prominence in Rome, pursuing a career in the courts and political life, for which he had been trained, while also acquiring celebrity as an author of tragedies and essays. Falling foul of successive emperors (Caligula in AD 39 and Claudius in AD 41), he spent eight years in exile, allegedly for an affair with Caligula's sister. Recalled in AD 49, he was made praetor and was appointed tutor to the boy who was to become, in AD 54, the emperor Nero. On Nero's succession, Seneca acted for some eight years as an unofficial chief minister. The early part of this reign was remembered as a period of sound government, for which the main credit seems due to Seneca. His control over Nero declined as enemies turned the emperor against him with representations that his popularity made him a danger, or with accusations of immorality or excessive wealth. Retiring from public life he devoted his last three years to philosophy and writing, particularly the Letters to Lucilius. In AD 65 following the discovery of a plot against the emperor, in which he was thought to be implicated, he and many others were compelled by Nero to commit suicide. His fame as an essayist and dramatist lasted until two or three centuries ago, when he passed into literary oblivion, from which the twentieth century has seen a considerable recovery.

William Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator. His translations include works by Euripides, Aristophanes, and Petronius. He died in 1992.