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The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis

The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis Paperback - 1986

by Petronius; Seneca

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  • Title The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis
  • Author Petronius; Seneca
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised 5th
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140444890I5N00
  • ISBN 9780140444896 / 0140444890
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.24 x 0.63 in (19.76 x 13.31 x 1.60 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1450
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Rome - Literary collections, Petronius Arbiter - Translations into English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87107609
  • Dewey Decimal Code 877.01

First line

The Satyricon has been traditionally, and rightly, attributed to the courtier of Nero whose downfall and death in A.D. 66 are described by Tacitus (Annals 16.17-20): 17. So the space of a few days saw the fall, in the same bloody action, of Annaeus Mela, Cerialis Anicius, Rufrius Crispinus, and Petronius, Mela and Crispinus being Roman knights of senatorial status...

From the rear cover

For this edition Professor Sullivan has updated his translation and his invaluable literary and historical introductions in the light of the latest research; he has also included all Petronius' surviving verse.

About the author

Titus Petronius Arbiter is reputedly the author of the Satyricon. According to Tacitus, Petronius' chief talent lay in the pursuit of pleasures, in which he displayed such exquisite refinement that he earned the unofficial title of the emperor Nero's 'arbiter of elegance' (arbiter elegantiae). Court rivalry and jealousy contrived to cast on Petronius the suspicion that he was conspiring against the emperor, and he was ordered to commit suicide in A.D. 66. He gradually bled to death, opening his veins, binding and re-opening them, passing his last hours in social amusement and the composition of a catalogue of Nero's debaucheries.

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.

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