Satyricon!

Advanced Latin (201, 301, 401)

Reserve Readings


Readings For Seminar Reports

 

Bartsch, S., Actors in the Audience [PA6019.B37]

Coffey, M., Roman Satire [PA6056.C6]

D'Arms, J., Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome [HF377 .D37]

Edwards, C., The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome [PA6029.M67E83]

Gower, E., The Loaded Table [PA6029.F66G69]

Griffin, Miriam T., Nero: The End of a Dynasty [DG285.G75]

Richlin, A., The Garden of Priapus [PA6095.R53]

Rudd, N., Themes in Roman Satire [PA6095.R83]

Sullivan, J.P., Literature and Politics in the Age of Nero [PA6029.P64S85]

Sullivan, J.P., Satire [PA6056.S8]

Walsh, P.G., The Roman Novel [PA6559.R53]


Assigned and Recommended Readings

 

Auerbach, Erich. 1953. Mimesis. tr. W. R. Trask. Princeton [the Petronius chapter] [PN56.R3 A83.]

Conte, G. B., The Hidden Author : An Interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 60) Elaine Fantham (Translator). Hardcover (January 1997) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520207157 [PA6559 .C64 1996]

Harrison, S. J. (Editor) Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel,, Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0198721749 (1999) [PA6091 .O94 1999]

Slater, N., Reading Petronius, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 080183984X (1990) [PA6559 .S5 1990]


Articles:

Abbot, Frank Frost. 1907. "The Use of Language as a Means of Characterization in Petronius." CP 2: 43-50.

Arrowsmith, William. 1966. "Luxury and Death in the Satyricon." Arion 5: 304-31.

Baldwin, Barry. 1987. "Hannibal at Troy: The Sources of Trimalchio's Confusion." PSN 17:6 (et seq.).

Beck, R. "Some Observations on the Narrative Technique of Petronius," in ed., S. J. Harrison, Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999) 50-73.

Cameron, A. M. 1970. "Myth and Meaning in Petronoius." Latomus 29: 397-425.

Courtney, E. 1987. "Petronius and the Underworld." AJP 108: 408-10.

George, Peter

1966. "Style and Character in the Satyricon." Arion 5: 336-58.

1974. "Petronius and Lucan de bello civili." CQ 24: 119-33.

Gill, Christopher. 1973. "The Sexual Episodes in the Satyricon." CP 68: 172-85.

Highet, Gilbert. 1941. "Petronius the Moralist." TAPA 72: 176-94.

Hubbard, T. K. 1986. "The Narrative Architecture of Petronius'Satyricon." AC 55: 190-212.

Kennedy, George. 1978. "Encolpius and Agamemnon in Petronius." AJP 99: 171-78.

Petersmann, H., "Environment, Linguistic Situation, and Levels of Style in Petronius' Satyrica," in ed., S. J. Harrison, Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999) 105-123.

Rose, K. F. C.

1962. "Time and Place in the Satyricon." TAPA 93:402-9.

1966. "The Petronian Inquisition: An Auto-da-fé." Arion 5: 275-301.

Saylor, Charles. 1987. "Funeral Games: The Significance of Games in the Cena Trimalchionis." Latomus 46: 593-602.

Slater, Niall W.

1986. "Satyricon 60.7: Which Augustus?" LCM 11.3- 43

1987. "Against Interpretation: Petronius and Art Criticism." Ramus 16: 165-76.

Sochotoff, A. Fred. 1970. "Imagery in the Poems of the Satyricon." CJ 65:340-44.

Starr, R. J.

1987a. "Trimalchio's Homeristae." Latomus 46: 199-200

1987b. "Trimalchio's Libraries." Hermes 115:252-53

Wooten, Cecil.

1976. "Petronius, the Mime, and Rhetorical Education." Heios, n.s. 3: 67-74

1984. "Petronius and 'Camp." Helios n.s., 11:133-39.

Zeitlin, Fromma

1971a. "Petronius as Paradox: Anarchy and Artistic Integrity." TAPA 102: 631-84

1971b "Romanus Petronius: A Study of the Trojae Halosis and the Bellum Civile." Latonus 30: 56-82.

 


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