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The Satyricon

by Petronius Book 28 in the Penguin Classics: Ancient World series.

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Petronius’s Satyricon is a fragmentary Roman prose-and-verse fiction following Encolpius through a world of sex, fraud, dining, performance and social pretension. Its most famous section, Trimalchio’s dinner, satirises wealth, freedmen and elite imitation under the early empire.

Historical Periods

Julio-Claudian Dynasty27 BCE–68 CE Roman Satire and Imperial Society50 BCE–150 CE

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Classical Literature

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Nero37–68 Petroniusc. 27–66

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