He held several positions in the Empire, including governor of Bithynia and consul, but he had more fun serving as Nero's "director of elegance."
He held several positions in the Empire, including governor of Bithynia and consul, but he had more fun serving as Nero's "director of elegance." According to Tacitus, after attracting the envy of the prefect Tigellinus, he was forced to committ suicide like Seneca had done a year earlier. Nero provided the model for the rich and vulgar Trimalchio--a character that serves a rowdy banquet in Book XV of this statesman and author's only extant work. FTP, name this man born Titus Niger, the author of an extremely long but fragmentary picaresque, the Satyricon.
He held several positions in the Empire, including governor of Bithynia and consul, but he had more fun serving as Nero's "director of elegance."
Gaius Petronius Arbiter or Titus Petronius Niger