The Satyricon (Penguin Classics)
Titus Petronius Arbiter, the purported author ofThe  Satyricon, was an advisor to the Roman emperor Nero. The victim of  court intrigue, he commited suicide in AD 66.J.P. Sullivan(d. 1993) was a professor of classics at the  University of California, Santa Barbara.Helen Moralesis an associate professor of classics at the  University of California, Santa Barbara.