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Petronius Satyricon

Petronius Satyricon. What happened to the text?. The Satyricon. Believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Example of Menippean satire Contains a mixture of prose and verse Provides some insight on how lower classes lived during the early Roman Empire. What is missing?.

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Petronius Satyricon

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  1. Petronius Satyricon What happened to the text?

  2. The Satyricon • Believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius • Example of Menippean satire • Contains a mixture of prose and verse • Provides some insight on how lower classes lived during the early Roman Empire

  3. What is missing? • 141 sections of consecutive narrative preserved • Original is believed to have at least 16 books with several thousand pages • The preserved sections seem to be very involved at that point • References to the past of Encolpius and other characters

  4. Continuity issues • Many very short fragments • Missing beginnings, endings, or whole Scenes • The cause of much “scholarly frustration” • The only uninterrupted portion is known as...

  5. Dinner Party Of Trimalchio • The only largely unbroken section • Detailed and structured event sequences • Supports the idea that the other sections are cut up.

  6. But Why? Speculated that: Likely had difficulty during the renaissance Only one incomplete manuscript was used for the subsequent copies Even the title was debated

  7. References https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5225/5225-h/5225-h.htm http://jclarkmedia.com/gaybooks/satyriconinfo.html https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/petronius/satyricon/complete.html

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