Petronius: A Handbook

Petronius - A Handbook (2009)
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ISBN: 9781405156875......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
About this Book......Page 16
Who Was Petronius?......Page 20
Episodic Outline of the Extant Satyrica......Page 25
Glossary of Important Names......Page 26
Introductory Reading......Page 28
1 - Reading the Satyrica......Page 31
Reading Fragments and Fragmented Readings......Page 32
Genre, Narrator, Narrative......Page 35
Reading a Poet and his Poetry......Page 39
The Wrath of Priapus?......Page 40
(Without) a Sense of an Ending......Page 43
Further Reading......Page 45
Homer......Page 47
Plato......Page 53
The Greek Novel......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 61
Further Reading......Page 62
3 - Petronius and the Roman Literary Tradition......Page 63
Petronius and Horace......Page 65
Petronius and Virgil......Page 67
Petronius and Ovid......Page 70
Encolpius’s Penis and Dido......Page 71
Petronius and Greek Novels, Roman Rhetoric, and Low Drama......Page 73
Petronius and Publilius (No, I meant Seneca)......Page 75
Petronius and Petronius......Page 76
Conclusion......Page 77
Further Reading......Page 78
4 - Letting the Page Run On - Poetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the Satyrica......Page 80
Talking, Eating, and Characterization......Page 81
Pump Up the Volume: Music and Metaphor......Page 86
Language Breakdowns and Civil War......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 95
Further Reading......Page 96
Sex Norms......Page 97
Encolpius + Ascyltos + Giton + Eumolpus + others......Page 99
Slave sex......Page 104
The penis as hero......Page 106
Literary sex, or, Encolpius in literatureland......Page 107
Outlaw Sex......Page 111
Further Reading......Page 114
6 - The Satyrica and Neronian Culture......Page 116
Close Reading......Page 117
Beyond the Cena......Page 124
Putting Nero in Context......Page 127
Further Reading......Page 128
7 - Freedmen in the Satyrica......Page 129
Further Reading......Page 139
A Rogues’ Market and Commodity Culture......Page 140
Go to School and Get a Good Job......Page 144
Big Business......Page 147
Money Makes the World Go Round......Page 150
To Live Off the Land......Page 151
Further Reading......Page 153
Introduction......Page 155
Death, Dying, and the Dead......Page 156
A Fictional Tomb......Page 162
Real Tombs and Real People......Page 166
Conclusion......Page 174
Further Reading......Page 175
Vulgarity and Villas......Page 176
Importance of the Domus......Page 179
Insularity of Trimalchio’s Domus......Page 180
Layout of the Domus......Page 182
Memory and Autobiography......Page 184
Myth and Education......Page 186
Hunting......Page 188
Theatricality......Page 189
Reality and Fantasy, Deception and Naturalism......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 193
Further Reading......Page 194
Introduction......Page 196
Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle (1751)......Page 197
Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)......Page 198
W. Wilkie Collins, Antonina (1850)......Page 199
Edwin Shrake, Peter Arbiter (1973)......Page 201
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)......Page 203
Robert Harris, Pompeii (2003)......Page 205
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis? (1896)......Page 206
Antony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked (......Page 207
Jesse Browner, The Uncertain Hour (2007)......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 211
Further Reading......Page 212
12 - Fellini-Satyricon - Petronius and Film......Page 213
Fellini and the Birth of Fellini-Satyricon......Page 214
The Narrative of Fellini-Satyricon......Page 217
The Sights and Sounds of Fellini-Satyricon......Page 225
“The Meaning should Become Apparent Only at the End” (Fellini)......Page 229
Further Reading......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 233
Index locorum......Page 249
General Index......Page 259