Petronius. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon.

Edité par Ralph Straus, London, 1910

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with the Earliest English Translation (1694), now first reprinted with an Introduction, together with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London : privately printed by Ralph Straus, 1910. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter-vellum over papered boards (edges rubbed, lightly marked, repaired split to head of spine), top edge gilt, other edges uncut, 303 pp, one hundred black and white plates by Lindsay, edges lightly foxed, a clean and firmly bound copy of a rare book. Limited to 265 copies (250 for sale), signed and numbered by Norman Lindsay and Ralph Straus. A finely illustrated, private press edition of the classic Roman text, attributed to Gaius Petronius Arbiter (c. AD 27?66), a courtier and "arbiter of elegance" under the Roman emperor Nero. The text is in the original Latin, with a translation from the earliest English edition of 1694. Considered to be the earliest surviving example of a novel, the text follows the narrator, Encolpius, who travels through southern Italy with his lover/servant Giton, and a rival companion Ascyltus. Much of the erratic plot is driven by Encolpius inadvertently offending Priapus, the Roman god of fertility, which curses him with ongoing misfortune and impotence. The most famous surviving section of the book is Cena Trimalchionis (Dinner with Trimalchio). It depicts an outrageously lavish, vulgar dinner party hosted by a newly rich, self-made former slave named Trimalchio. This section satirises the social climbing, tasteless excess, and moral decay of Neronian Rome, serving as a further critique on modern social values.…

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Petronius. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon.
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LINDSAY, Norman (1879 - 1969)
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Ralph Straus, London
Année de publication
1910
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