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Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Petronius' Rome is not the noble civilisation of classical ideals; his Romans are lascivious, amoral and stylish, inhabiting a louche world of ostentatious, nouveau riche extravagance and flirtation with the seductive menace of the Roman underclass. In Raphael's hands, the "Satyrica" becomes a modern novel, Petronius a contemporary. Freed of the weight of classical decorum, the "Satyrica" is racily subversive, scandalously entertaining. This work, writes Raphael, has always been excluded from the curriculum: it offers no improving pieties. Petronius' - and Raphael's - ancient Rome is recognisably the city of Pasolini and Fellini as much as of Virgil.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Satyrica
• Author: Petronius Arbiter
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781857547832
• ISBN: 1857547837
• ID: 05117818
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 214 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 2009

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