Petronius a handbook /
Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world.:.; Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars.; Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyric...
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Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444306064 |
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Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world.:.; Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars.; Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception.; Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9781405156875 (Cloth) 1405156872 (Cloth) 9781444306071 (electronic bk.) 1444306073 (electronic bk.) 9781444306064 1444306065 9781405197960 (electronic bk.) 140519796X (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | PA6561 |
CLC: | I109.2 |
Contents: | Reading the Satyrica / Niall W. Slater -- Petronius and Greek Literature / J.R. Morgan -- Petronius and the Roman literary tradition / Costas Panayotakis -- Letting the page run on : poetics, rhetoric, and noise in the Satyrica / Victoria Rimell -- Sex in the Satyrica : outlaws in literatureland / Amy Richlin -- The Satyrica and Neronian culture / Caroline Vout -- Freedmen in the Satyrica / Jean Andreau -- A funny thing happened on my way to the market : reading Petronius to write economic history / Koenraad Verboven -- At home with the dead : Roman funeral traditions and Trimalchio's tomb / Valerie M. Hope -- Freedmen's cribs : domestic vulgarity on the Bay of Naples / Shelley Hales -- Petronius' Satyrica and the novel in English / Stephen Harrison -- Fellini-Satyricon / Joanna Paul. |