A thinly-veiled exaggeration of reality, The Satyricon makes the days of doomed Herculaneum and Pompeii real – and paints unforgettable pictures of Roman excess, including Trimalchio’s famous feast.

Satyricon is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry (prosimetrum). It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of…

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead and company Subjects: History / General Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical

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Le Satyricon, un livre classique, a ete considere comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanite, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublie, chez Alpha Editions, nous…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…