The disreputable misadventures of a wandering rogue and his boy lover, centered on a vulgar freedman's lavish banquet.
Books mentioned in The Satyricon (2)
Iliad by Homer: “I asked the hall-porter what pictures were in the middle hall. "The Iliad and the Odyssey," he replied, "and the gladiatorial games given under Laenas."”
The Odyssey by Homer: “I asked the hall-porter what pictures were in the middle hall. "The Iliad and the Odyssey," he replied, "and the gladiatorial games given under Laenas."”
Books that mention The Satyricon (4)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: “…indeed, a subtle pleasure in the thought that he might really become to the London of his own day what to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been, yet in his inmost heart he desired to be something more than a mere _arbiter elegantiarum_, to be consulted on the wearing…”
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie: “To get some clues to Petronius Golden I read The Satyricon and studied Menippean satire”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “two comic novels, the Satyricon by Petronius... and the Golden Ass”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “saith Petronius in his fragment of pure impurities, I mean his Satyricon,”