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Satyricon

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Petronius, Arbiter (0066)
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Philosophus (0065)
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Heseltine, Michael
Rouse, W. H. D. (1863-1950)
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Warmington, E. H. (1898-1987)
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Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Verlag:
Harvard University Press
Ort:
Cambridge, MA
Entstehungszeit:
1913
Sprache:
Englisch
Abstract:
Petronius' Satyricon, probably written between 54 and 68 CE, presents in lurid detail the disreputable adventures of Encolpius, including his attendance at Trimalchio's wildly extravagant dinner party. The Apocolocyntosis (Pumpkinification), a satire on the death and apotheosis of the emperor Claudius, is attributed to Seneca (c. 4 BCE-54 CE), Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (41-54 CE) and Nero (54-68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was governor of the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a consul, showing himself a man of vigour when this was required. Later he lapsed into indulgence (or assumed the mask of vice) and became a close friend of Nero. Accused by jealous Tigellinus of disloyalty and condemned, with self-opened veins he conversed lightly with friends, dined, drowsed, sent to Nero a survey of Nero's sexual deeds, and so died, 66 CE. The surviving parts of Petronius's romance Satyricon mix philosophy and real life, prose and verse, in a tale of the disreputable adventures of Encolpius and two companions, Ascyltus and Giton. In the course of their wanderings they attend a showy and wildly extravagant dinner given by a rich freedman, Trimalchio, whose guests talk about themselves and life in general. Other incidents are a shipwreck and somewhat lurid proceedings in South Italy. The work is written partly in pure Latin, but sometimes purposely in a more vulgar style. It parodies and otherwise attacks bad taste in literature, pedantry and hollow society. Apocolocyntosis, Pumpkinification (instead of deification), is probably by Seneca the wealthy philosopher and courtier (ca. 4 BCE-65 CE). It is a medley of prose and verse and a political satire on the Emperor Claudius written soon after he died in 54 CE and was deified
Objekttext:
Petronius ; with an English translation by Michael Heseltine. Apocolocyntosis / Seneca ; with an English translation W.H.D. Rouse ; revised by E.H. Warmington
Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages

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