| #219795 in Books | Hackett Pub Co | 2000-03-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x5.50 x.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Great Book, excelent condition|1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| a jewel of its time|By Kristen|I really loved this book, but unless you have someone that can translate some of the names for you and are familiar with the epics and roman/greek myths, much of the humor may be lost on you.||
|[Ruden] has caught, better than any translator known to me, both the conversational patterns of Petronian dialogue and the camera-sharp specificity and color of the Satyricon's descriptive passages. . . . A quite extraordinary achievement against heavy o
This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of the author, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work―as well as such features of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices, households, dinner parties, religion, and phi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Satyricon (Hackett Classics) | Petronius. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
