Petronius : a handbook / edited by Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath.
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TextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781405156875; 1405156872; 9781444306071; 1444306073; 9781444306064; 1444306065; 9781405197960; 140519796XSubject(s): Petronius Arbiter -- Criticism and interpretation | Petronius Arbiter | Petronius <Arbiter> | Satyrica | Satire, Latin -- History and criticism | Satire, Latin | TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary | LITERARY CRITICISM -- General | Satire, LatinGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Petronius.DDC classification: 873/.01 22 LOC classification: PA6561 | .P37 2009ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Reading the Satyrica / Niall W. Slater -- Petronius and Greek Literature / J.R. Morgan -- Petronius and the Roman literary tradition / Costas Panayotakis -- Letting the page run on : poetics, rhetoric, and noise in the Satyrica / Victoria Rimell -- Sex in the Satyrica : outlaws in literatureland / Amy Richlin -- The Satyrica and Neronian culture / Caroline Vout -- Freedmen in the Satyrica / Jean Andreau -- A funny thing happened on my way to the market : reading Petronius to write economic history / Koenraad Verboven -- At home with the dead : Roman funeral traditions and Trimalchio's tomb / Valerie M. Hope -- Freedmen's cribs : domestic vulgarity on the Bay of Naples / Shelley Hales -- Petronius' Satyrica and the novel in English / Stephen Harrison -- Fellini-Satyricon / Joanna Paul.
Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world.:.; Includes 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.; Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.
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