Satyricon. Testo latino a fronte

Today, the Satyricon is most famous for two things: 1. For being (arguably) the first novel, and 2. For being a very, very dirty little book. Unfortunately, only 141 chapters of a much longer work have survived. But those chapters are extremely compelling. Written during the reign of Nero in the 1st ce Leggi tutto

A collection of fragments alleged to be the first novel in Western literature. A farcical mixbag of daily life and cant, with poetry, parodies and pastiches, and don't forget a good coating of saucy and nonsensical episodes. The feast at Trimalchio's has to give you the giggles :D -------------------- Leggi tutto

Petronius' Satyrica more than lives up to its bawdy reputation. Those ancient pagans sure were a riot, let me tell you. Sadly, due to its fragmentary nature (only two books have survived), it fails in ever truly making the reader - well, this one at least - care about the actual story. As a series o Leggi tutto