||1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Frolics in the time of Nero|By sgt lamb|There are entertaining exchanges and adventures among the characters in this fiction, presumably based on real life rogues in the time of Nero. The footnotes are very good to make the best of the references to gods and others, although it is a pain to go back and forth from the text to the back pages. It brings to life the follies of anc||"This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."| —Time|"William Arrowsmith's translation of The Satyricon meets the two fundamental requirements of the translator's art: perfect fidelity to
The marvelously entertaining parody of imperial Rome
One of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world, The Satyricon offers an unmatched satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos. It recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy, encountering courtesans, priestesses, con men, brothel-keepers, pompous professors, and, above all, Tr...
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