Petronius

Jonathan Prag is a University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His main areas of research are Hellenistic and Republican Sicily, and the Roman Republic. He has edited a volume (Sicilia nutrix plebis Romanae) on Cicero's Verrines, and is currently co-editing a volume on The Hellenistic West and writing a book on the non-Italian soldiers of the Roman Republican army.Ian Repath is Lecturer in Classics at Swansea University. His principal research interests are Greek and Latin prose fiction, and literary aspects of Plato. He is the author of the forthcoming article, Plato in Petronius: Petronius in platanona, and co-editor (with John Morgan) of Where the Truth Lies: Fiction and Metafiction in Ancient Narrative. He is a founding member of KYKNOS, the Swansea, Lampeter, and Exeter Centre for Research in Ancient Narrative Literatures.

• List of Illustrations ixList of Contributors xPreface and Acknowledgments xiiiAbbreviations xivIntroductionJonathan Prag and Ian Repath 1Map 151 Reading the SatyricaNiall W. Slater 162 Petronius and Greek LiteratureJ. R. Morgan 323 Petronius and the Roman Literary TraditionCostas Panayotakis 484 Letting the Page Run OnPoetics, Rhetoric, and Noise in the SatyricaVictoria Rimell 655 Sex in the SatyricaOutlaws in LiteraturelandAmy Richlin 826 The Satyrica and Neronian CultureCaroline Vout 1017 Freedmen in the SatyricaJean Andreau 1148 A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the MarketReading Petronius to Write Economic HistoryKoenraad Verboven 1259 At Home with the DeadRoman Funeral Traditions and Trimalchio's TombValerie M. Hope 14010 Freedmen's CribsDomestic Vulgarity on the Bay of NaplesShelley Hales 16111 Petronius's Satyrica and the Novel in EnglishStephen Harrison 18112 Fellini-SatyriconPetronius and FilmJoanna Paul 198Bibliography 218Index locorum 234General Index 244

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