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Short description This volume presents a dozen original essays by leading scholars in the fields of the ancient novel, Julio-Claudian culture, and early Roman imperial history, focused on Petronius' fragmentary work The Satyricon. The essays move from literary studies to cultural studies to historical studies. They examine the world portrayed by Petronius and the relevance of this to our understanding of the early Empire.
From the contents List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors x
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath 1
Map 15
1 Reading the Satyrica Niall W. Slater 16
2 Petronius and Greek Literature J. R. Morgan 32
3 Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition Costas Panayotakis 48
4 Letting the Page Run On Poetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the Satyrica Victoria Rimell 65
5 Sex in the Satyrica Outlaws in Literatureland Amy Richlin 82
6 The Satyrica and Neronian Culture Caroline Vout 101
7 Freedmen in the Satyrica Jean Andreau 114
8 A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market Reading Petronius to Write Economic History Koenraad Verboven 125
9 At Home with the Dead Roman Funeral Traditions and Trimalchio's Tomb Valerie M. Hope 140
10 Freedmen's Cribs Domestic Vulgarity on the Bay of Naples Shelley Hales 161
11 Petronius's Satyrica and the Novel in English Stephen Harrison 181
12 Fellini-Satyricon Petronius and Film Joanna Paul 198
