The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon (Sather Classical Lectures)
by Gian Biagio Conte
Sather Classical Lectures (60)
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"Petronius's Satyricon is famous today primarily for the amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast," also celebrated in Fellini's film, Satyricon. But this episode is only one part of the larger picture offered by the work." "In The Hidden Author, Professor Conte starts with the structure of the work as a whole, inviting the reader to appreciate the elements of irony and fantasy woven into the text. The author has hidden himself with the aim of striking at the vanity of the contemporary show more cultured scene, handing over his stage to his characters, who are living in various sorts of degradation, but who see themselves, in minds overactively appropriating a great literary heritage, as figures of mythic proportions. In the foreground of Petronius's work can be seen the follies and excesses of the Rome of Nero's time; in the background, the outlines of the intellectual life of the early Empire."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 873.01 — Literature & rhetoric Latin & Italic literatures Latin epic poetry and fiction to ca. 499, Roman period
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- PA6559 .C64 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Roman literature Individual authors
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