PETRONIUS

pĭtrōˈnēəs, d. c.a.d. 66, Roman satirist, known as Petronius Arbiter because of his now generally accepted identity with Gaius Petronius, to whom Tacitus refers as arbiter elegantiae in the court of Nero. According to Tacitus, Petronius served first as proconsul, then as consul of Bithynia. He is remembered chiefly, however, as an indolent and profligate lover of luxury. When Tigellinus, a rival for the favor of Nero, caused the arrest of Petronius, the latter ended his own life, at Cumae, by slashing his veins. He made dying a leisurely procedure, attended by festivity among his associates. To him is accredited the authorship of a satirical work, Petronii arbitri satyricon, a romance with skillful delineation of characters, written in prose interspersed with verse. Parts of the 15th and 16th books have been preserved. Among the surviving fragments the most complete and valuable section is the Cena Trimalchionis (Trimalchio's Dinner), presenting a humorous episode of vulgar display on the part of a man whose great wealth is newly acquired. These satires furnish a vivid study of the life and manners of the time in a sustained, connected example of the colloquial language. The Latin style of Petronius is among the best of its period.

See translations by J. P. Sullivan (1986) and W. Arrowsmith (1987); study by N. Slater (1990).

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books on: Petronius  - 1839 results

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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Book by Victoria Rimell; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Fiction--Technique, Narration (Rhetoric), Petronius Arbiter--Satyricon, Petronius Arbiter--Technique, Rome--In Literature, Satire, Latin--History And Criticism
...linguistic situation and levels of style in Petronius Satyricon , in Harrison 1999 , 105 23...M 23: 134 42. Rankin, H. D. 1966 Petronius, Priapus and Priapeum LXVIII, C M 27...H. D. 1969 Eating people is right: Petronius 141 and a topos, Hermes 97: 381 4 Rankin...
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The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in Its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs, 50-1050
Book by Philip Schuyler Allen, Howard Mumford Jones; The University of North Carolina Press, 1928
Subjects: Latin Poetry, Medieval And Modern--History And Criticism, Latin Poetry, Medieval And Modern--Translations Into English, Lyric Poetry--History And Criticism
...enough in this regard, the Nealce of Petronius finds its closest parallels in the lyrics...are quoted by Fulgentius as the work of Petronius. Especially in view of the fact that...published by Binet in his edition of Petronius Poitiers, 1579 front a MS originally...
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The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
Book by William Burnaby, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff; Modern Library, 1929
Subjects: Rome--History--Nero, 54-68--Fiction
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS THE SATYR OF TITUS PETRONIUS ARBITER With its Fragments, recoverd at Buda , 1688. PART ONE "I promisd you an account of what befel me, and am now resolvd to be as good as my word, being so met to our desires; not...
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Masterpieces of Latin Literature: Terence: Lucretius: Catullus: Virgil: Horace: Tibullus: Propertius: Ovid: Petronius: Martial: Juvenal: Cicero: Caesar: Livy: Tacitus: Pliny the Younger: Apuleius; with Biographical Sketches and Notes
Book by Gordon Jennings Laing; Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903
Subjects: Latin Literature--Translations Into English, Rome--Literary Collections
...possessed, met with divers strange experiences, Like the Satirae of Petronius, the work belongs to the novel class, so sparsely represented in Latin literature, but while Petronius deals with the everyday life of certain sections of Italian society...
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Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel
Book by S. J. Harrison; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Apuleius--Metamorphoses--English, Latin fiction--History and criticism, Literature and history--Rome, Petronius Arbiter--Satyricon, Rhetoric, Ancient
...prosimetrum as the only remaining link between Petronius and Menippean satire, and many scholars...matter of external form as the extent of Petronius debt to Varro and Seneca. Some, it...that other literary influences inspired Petronius use of prosimetrum, such as the Milesian...
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Petronius Rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis Id Est Petronius Rediuiuus Quod Heliae Tripolanensis Videtur Necnon Fragmenta (Alia) Heliae Tripolanensis
Journal article; Medium Aevum, Vol. 77, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Petronius Rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius Rediuiuus Quod Heliae Tripolanensis Videtur Necnon Fragmenta (Alia) Heliae Tripolanensis (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Petronius Rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis Id Est Petronius Rediuiuus Quod Heliae Tripolanensis Videtur Necnon Fragmenta (Alia) Heliae Tripolanensis. Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus...
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Guido Reni's Pallione del Voto and the Plague of 1630
Journal article by Catherine R. Puglisi; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history, Italy, Plague, Reni, Guido (1575-1642)
...saints: kneeling from left to right, Petronius, Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier...with precedence given above to Saint Petronius, the citys principal patron, and to...century, Bologna adopted another patron, Petronius, who had been bishop of Bologna in the...
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The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien [*
Journal article by Margaret A. Sullivan; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Art and history--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Durer, Albrecht--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Witchcraft in art--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Witches--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...humanists found especially attractive. 60 Petronius in the Satyricon says -- "ah, yes...authors such as Horace, Lucian, Juvenal, Petronius, Theocritus, Lucan, Ovid, and Apuleius...41.) Ibid., xli r. (42.) Petronius, Satyricon 62, 136-37. (43...
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The Sexual Outlaw in France, 1605
Journal article by Donald Stone Jr.; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 2, 1992
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...of the loves of Trimalchio as told by Petronius. One bed canopy depicts the story of...Thus, Trimalchios past, according to Petronius, included a time when he was his "masters...6 Petronius, Satyricon , trans. Michael Heseltine...
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Werewolves in Psyche and Cinema: Man-beast Transformation and Paradox
Journal article by Elizabeth A. Lawrence; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 19, 1996
Subjects: Culture, Folklore, Monsters, Motion picture criticism, Psychology
...work, Trimalchios Banquet, written by Petronius in the first century AD. The tale is...the man-towild beast transformation. Petronius story also established the feature that...appear after he returns to human form. In Petronius tale, as in others to follow, this...
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magazine articles on: Petronius  - 31 results

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Arnold Van Wyk's Hard, Stony, Flinty Path, or Making Things Beautiful in Apartheid South Africa
Magazine article by Stephanus Muller; Musical Times, Vol. 149, Winter 2008
Subjects: African history, Composers, Instrumental music, Musical performances
...juvenilia, in his First Symphony, the Petronius song cycle (reminiscent of the Britten...The most important of these is the five Petronius songs (1957-64), of which the first...not happened, for instance, to the Petronius songs (set to Latin texts), also suggests...
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Who Was Simon Raven
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003
Subjects: Authors, English--Attitudes, Raven, Simon--Attitudes
...little too cynical to pull off an affecting elegy. He was the Petronius of his generation, a cold-blooded satirist whose characters...melancholy of Powells elegant books. And the resemblance to Petronius extends to the personal as well as the literary, with Tacituss...
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Financial Planning Leads to an Exciting New Competition: the Atlanta Ago Chapter's Story
Magazine article by James F. Mellichamp; The American Organist, Vol. 45, March 2011
...to consider building a "nest egg" to ensure that every chapter has some additional sense of security. For, as ancient Petronius advised, "He that hath a penny in his purse is worth a penny: have and you shall be esteemed." The members of the Atlanta...
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We Need the Future Now
Magazine article by Phoebe Pettingell; The New Leader (Online), Vol. 91, March 2008
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
...pastoral to decadence. Martial composed savagely witty epigrams, Lucan imbued his lines with dark images and pathos, and Petronius practiced a ribald satire. Much contemporary poetry follows this pattern, and our current laureate sees connections between...
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Childhood in the Roman Empire: Ray Laurence Considers How Children Were Seen in Ancient Rome and Looks at Some of the Harsher Aspects of Childhood-Sickness, Violence and Endless Work
Magazine article by Ray Laurence; History Today, Vol. 55, October 2005
Subjects: Ancient Roman civilization--Social aspects, Child death--History, Children--Death, Children--History, Romans--Social aspects
...Enslaved children might even manage the shop in the absence of the older artisan. Trimalchio, a fictional freed slave in Petronius Satyricon, taught himself to read letters from inscriptions in the city and was taught percentages, weights and measures...
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Bewitched Has a Touch of Magic
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 9, 2010
...Royal Ascot meeting, beating me on Petronius Maximus. He seems a sharp, speedy...old maidens on tomorrows card, on PETRONIUS MAXIMUS and LONG LIVE THE KING. Second in the Windsor Castle, Petronius had his first run after a break behind...
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Golden Day for a High Flying Kite
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 11, 2010
...Jockeys Championship thanks to a double on two-year-olds Petronius Maximus (visored for the first time) in the sixfurlong maiden...account in the opening TRI Equestrian 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden. PETRONIUS MAXIMUS romps home ahead of Vastitas at the Curragh
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Aim for Aidan
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 16, 2010
...Aim for Aidan. Byline: PEADAR FLANAGAN KEEP faith in Petronius Maximus in the Derrinstown Stud EBF Premier Nursery at...poundsclaiming rider Sean Levey. As ohnny Murtagh who rode Petronius Maximus last weekend now switches to David Wachmans Emerald...
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Fine and Dandy; Famed for His Sartorial Daring and Outrageous Wit, It's Easy to Forget the Late Leo Abse Was Also One of the Most Important Champions of British Social Reform
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 26, 2008
Subjects: Blair, Tony--Political activity
...intentioned and lethally targeted - books they are! He was both the Petronius and Suetonius of his age to the British Establishment. But...elegant judgement" (as the Roman historian Tacitus said of Petronius) to the lives and reputations of the Emperor Nero et al...
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CATHY HOPING LUCK BE A LADY; DAY ONE OUR PREVIEW OF ALL TODAY'S ACTION: O'Leary Mare Hopes to End Weld's Domination
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 26, 2010
...bidding to give the Master of Rosewell House his 20th win in the race. After a tardy start and being hampered by the fallen Petronius Maximus with less than two furlongs to race, the Desert Style colt came home strongly to be beaten two lengths by Sydney...
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encyclopedia articles on: Petronius  - 4 results

 
 
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Petronius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETRONIUS pitro ne s, d. c.a.d. 66, Roman satirist, known as Petronius Arbiter because of his now generally accepted identity with Gaius Petronius, to whom Tacitus refers as arbiter elegantiae in the court of Nero. According to Tacitus...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Constantius III, named joint emperor by Honorius, 421 Valentinian III, nephew of Honorius and son of Constantius III, 425 55 Petronius Maximus, bought office by bribery, 455 Avitus, placed in office by Goths, 455 56 Majorian, puppet emperor of Ricimer...
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Cavedone, Giacomo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bologna. His paintings were strong in naturalistic detail and reflected Venetian influence. Virgin and Child with SS. Alo and Petronius is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Greek, were imitated. Among the most original poets were Martial and Juvenal , celebrated for their satiric writings. Petronius , Frontinus , Pliny the Elder , Pliny the Younger (see under Pliny the Elder ), and Tacitus were the chief writers of prose...


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