The Satyricon by Petronius

The Satyricon

Petronius with P. G. Walsh (Translator)

212 pages first pub 60 (editions)

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The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they w...

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