The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius Cena Trimalchionis (Mnemosyne Supplements)
by B. Boyce
Category: Literary Criticism

The present study of the representation of the speech of the lower classes in Petronius' Satyrica contains a thorough review of scholarship on the subject, a detailed examination of phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic features, and an exploration of how the different freedmen are characterized through their language.