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...
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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
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; About this Book; Who Was Petronius?; Episodic Outline of the Extant Satyrica; Glossary of Important Names; Introductory Reading; 1 Reading the Satyrica; Reading Fragments and Fragmented Readings; Genre, Narrator, Narrative; Reading a Poet and his Poetry; The Wrath of Priapus?; (Without) a Sense of an Ending; Further Reading; 2 Petronius and Greek Literature; Homer; Plato; The Greek Novel; Conclusion; Further Reading; 3 Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition
Petronius and HoracePetronius and Virgil; Petronius and Ovid; Encolpius's Penis and Dido; Petronius and Greek Novels, Roman Rhetoric, and Low Drama; Petronius and Publilius (No, I meant Seneca); Petronius and Petronius; Conclusion; Further Reading; 4 Letting the Page Run On; Talking, Eating, and Characterization; Pump Up the Volume: Music and Metaphor; Language Breakdowns and Civil War; Conclusion; Further Reading; 5 Sex in the Satyrica; Sex Norms; The Satyrica as Document; Outlaw Sex; Further Reading; 6 The Satyrica and Neronian Culture; Close Reading; Beyond the Cena
Putting Nero in ContextFurther Reading; 7 Freedmen in the Satyrica; Further Reading; 8 A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market; A Rogues' Market and Commodity Culture; Go to School and Get a Good Job; Big Business; Money Makes the World Go Round; To Live Off the Land; Conclusion; Further Reading; 9 At Home with the Dead; Introduction; Death, Dying, and the Dead; A Fictional Tomb; Real Tombs and Real People; Conclusion; Further Reading; 10 Freedmen's Cribs; Vulgarity and Villas; Importance of the Domus; Insularity of Trimalchio's Domus; Layout of the Domus; Memory and Autobiography
Myth and EducationHunting; Theatricality; Reality and Fantasy, Deception and Naturalism; Conclusion; Further Reading; 11 Petronius's Satyrica and the Novel in English; Introduction; Dormice and Honey: The Cena Trimalchionis through the Novelistic Ages; The Man and the Book: Petronius and the Satyrica as Fictional Subjects; Conclusion; Further Reading; 12 Fellini-Satyricon; Fellini and the Birth of Fellini-Satyricon; The Narrative of Fellini-Satyricon; The Sights and Sounds of Fellini-Satyricon; "The Meaning should Become Apparent Only at the End" (Fellini); Further Reading; Bibliography
