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 fromliterary studies, which tackle the fundamental questions of what sort of a text this is, to cultural studies, which examine the world of the author and thewider cultural context for its production, and conclude with historical studies, which examine the world portrayed by Petronius and the relevance of this to our understanding of the early Empire. INDICE: List of Illustrations.List of Contributors.Preface and Acknowledgments.Abbreviations.Introduction: Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath.Map.1. Reading the Satyrica: Niall W. Slater.2. Petronius and Greek Literature: J. R. Morgan.3. Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition: Costas Panayotakis.4. Letting the Page Run On: Poetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the Satyrica: Victoria Rimell.5. Sex in the Satyrica: Outlaws in Literatureland: Amy Richlin.6. The Satyrica and Neronian Culture: Caroline Vout.7. Freedmen in the Satyrica: Jean Andreau.8. A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Market: Reading Petronius to Write Economic History: Koenraad Verboven.9. At Home with the Dead: Roman Funeral Traditions and Trimalchios Tomb: Valerie M. Hope.10. Freedmens Cribs: Domestic Vulgarity on the Bay of Naples: Shelley Hales.11. Petroniuss Satyrica and the Novel in English: Stephen Harrison.12. Fellini-Satyricon: Petronius and Film: Joanna Paul.Bibliography.Index locorum.General Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-5687-5
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés