‘Satyrica' of Petronius

Wade Richardson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.Wade Richardson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.Wade Richardson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.

• Introduction: Petronius the (Comic) Novelist 1. The Author and His Date and His Work 2. The Manuscript Transmission and the Making of LOH and the Text 3. The Register of Shared or Singular Text Content in the LOH Classes 4. The Plot and the Characterization 5. The Sex: via Libido and Libidinosus, Showing Speaker and Gender Target 6. The Freedmen and Their Table Talk and Trimalchio 7. The Latin and the Translation 8. The Stemmata and the Sigla of the Manuscripts and Earliest Editions 9. The Sigla of the Manuscripts and Editions for the Apparatus Criticus 10. The List of Scholars Cited in the Apparatus Criticus Petronii: The Latin Text and Apparatus Satyrica: The English Translation with Footnotes Annex: Argued Emendations Adopted in the Text, with Directory Aggregate BibliographyIndex

“Wade Richardson’s new critical edition and translation of The ‘Satyrica’ of Petronius is a splendid piece of scholarship, both a delight to read and a valuable addition to the Phoenix Supplementary Volumes series. The book represents a major contribution to our understanding of what Petronius actually wrote and of what his precise wording actually means. It is the result of many years of impressively attentive and sympathetic consideration of Petronius’ remarkable, and remarkably idiosyncratic, novel.”