The Satyricon; The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: J. P. Sullivan (Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: December 2, 1986
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140444896
First sentence: 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...