The Satyricon

This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny.Time. The Satyricon is a classic of comedy a superbly funny picture of Nero''s Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius its most amorous and elegant courtier.William Arrowsmith''s translationa lively modern unexpurgated textrecaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius''s picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking adventures of an educated rogue Encolpius his handsome serving boy Giton and Ascyltus who lusts after Gitonthree impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other men''s purses. The Satyricon unfailingly turns every weakness of the flesh every foible of the mind to laughter.