Petronius
Subtitle: a handbook
By: edited by Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath.
Contributors: Prag, J. R. W.; Repath, Ian.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405156875
Subjects: Petronius Arbiter -- Criticism and interpretation; Satire, Latin -- History and criticism
Description: "Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Features include: a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars; features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception; and, supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Reading the Satyrica / Niall Slater; title: Petronius and Greek Literature / J. R. Morgan; title: Petronius and the Roman literary tradition / Costas Panayotakis; title: Letting the page run on : poetics, rhetoric, and noise in the Satyrica / Victoria Rimell; title: Sex in the Satyrica : outlaws in literatureland / Amy Richlin; title: The Satyrica and Neronian culture / Caroline Vout; title: Freedmen in the Satyrica / Jean Andreau; title: A funny thing happened on my way to the market : reading Petronius to write economic history / Koenraad Verboven; title: At home with the dead : Roman funeral traditions and Trimalchio's tomb / Valerie M. Hope; title: Freedmen's cribs : domestic vulgarity on the Bay of Naples / Shelley Hales; title: Petronius' Satyrica and the novel in English / Stephen Harrison; title: Fellini-Satyricon : Petronius and film / Joanna Paul.