Petronius the Satiricon

About “Petronius the Satiricon”

The Satyricon, also called Satyricon liber or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition names the author Titus Petronius. It is an example of Menippean satire, distinct from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace, mixing prose and verse, serious and comic elements, and erotic and decadent passages. Like Apuleius's The Golden Ass, it is often described by classical scholars as a Roman novel. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)