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Petronius’ epigraphic habit [PDF]
Dictynna, 2005 In this paper we attempt to offer a survey of the references to writing and inscribing texts in the 'Satyrica' of Petronius. We concentrate on inscriptions in order to relate them to the phenomenon known as the 'epigraphic habit' and the rapid rise of a culture of epigraphic self-representation in Roman society in the course of the first century BCE ...
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Petronius, A Portrait of the Artist
Symbolae Osloenses, 1970In its essentials the story is familiar: A brilliant man at a tyrant’s court: a man for whom it is difficult to write anything but satire. He enjoys his short period of glory, the discovery of his administrative gifts1 which run in team with his analytical talent as a writer; then comes the diversion of his career from its apparently purposeful ...
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Petronius, a Roman author traditionally identified as the “arbiter of elegance” at Nero's court, wrote the Satyrica, a partially extant prosimetric novel that may have originally consisted of 24 books. The protagonist and narrator, Encolpius, is in love with the younger Giton, and they face various adventures together.
Stephen J Harrison
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Stephen J Harrison
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The Classical Quarterly, 1976
… super scorpionem + pisciculum marinum +, super sagittarium oclopetam, super capricornum locustam marinam, super aquarium anserem, super pisces duos mullos.The unsoundness of the area followingscorpionemis brought out by its extreme vagueness (Heinsius) coupled with the stylistically inelegant repetition ofmarinum/-am, - objectionable in Petronius.
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… super scorpionem + pisciculum marinum +, super sagittarium oclopetam, super capricornum locustam marinam, super aquarium anserem, super pisces duos mullos.The unsoundness of the area followingscorpionemis brought out by its extreme vagueness (Heinsius) coupled with the stylistically inelegant repetition ofmarinum/-am, - objectionable in Petronius.
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Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1959
THE post-Renaissance world has had little difficulty in coming to terms with the great Roman writers, with Livy and Cicero, Vergil and Horace. These men were honoured in their own generation, they were revered in the next, studied and quoted and made the instrument of the Empire's education.
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THE post-Renaissance world has had little difficulty in coming to terms with the great Roman writers, with Livy and Cicero, Vergil and Horace. These men were honoured in their own generation, they were revered in the next, studied and quoted and made the instrument of the Empire's education.
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