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The Satyricon & The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius

by Petronius, Petronius Arbiter, Seneca, Seneca, Seneca

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Filthy disgusting muck!

Five stars. Ten out of Ten.

You may also enjoy Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson where the vices are drugs and sex instead of food and sex. Also The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Lucius Apuleius' Golden Ass ( )
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Fragmented novel(?)amazing scenes satirizing the worst of the best of Roman society. ( )
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Heseltine, MichaelTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140444890, Paperback)

Perhaps the strangest and most strikingly modern work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self-made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on an insanely grand scale makes him one of the great comic characters in literature. Seneca's The Apocolocyntosis, a malicious skit on the deification of Claudius the Clod', was designed by the author to ingratiate himself with Nero, who was Claudius' successor. Together, the two provide a powerful insight into a darkly fascinating period of Roman history.

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"One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently a bewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream of ancient satire, it is also something recognizably apart and utterly original; visibly a novel, it is yet somehow not a novel at all ..."--P. v.… (more)

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