Petronius

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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1913
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Books in Order: 6 titles

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  • Trimalchio's Feast

  • The Satyricon: The Morazla Scrolls

    An entertaining romp through the salacious world of Roman society. Dr. Nest's spirited translation of the scrolls, abundant with ironic wit, charm, lampoonery and eroticism, serves well to bring this first modern novel to life....

  • Satyrica

    Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his charms, are invited to a gargantuan banquet hosted by the prodigal, pompous, newly rich Trimalchio. When the feast turns into a ...

  • The Satyricon; The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius

    Perhaps the strangest -- and most strikingly modern -- work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings ...

  • The Satyricon

    The Satyricon offers a mocking, insiders glimpse into the most excessively decadent, cruel, and contradictory aspects of life in Neros Rome. A series of wandering, debauchery-filled tales, starring a picaresque anti-hero named Encolpius, the text lea...

  • Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis

    Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (41â€"54 CE) and Nero (54â€"68)...



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Petronius has published 6 books.

Petronius does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Trimalchio's Feast, was published in March 2015.

The first book by Petronius, Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis, was published in January 1913.

No. Petronius does not write books in series.
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