Reading Petronius by Niall W. Slater

Reading Petronius

Niall W. Slater

268 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced

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The Satyricon, ' writes Niall W. Slater, 'has been a critical embarrassment ever since its rediscovery-- it will neither explain itself nor go away.' Earlier centuries found the book scandalous, in part for its wide-ranging and explicit sexual con...

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