{"product_id":"a-reading-of-petronius-satyrica-9781666933055","title":"A Reading of Petronius' Satyrica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003ePetronius Satyricon is a haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie masterpiece that offers a fresh look at the hell that humanity has fashioned for itself. Lee Fratantuono's reading reveals Petronius to be the ultimate literary voice of a dying dynasty, a prose and poetic verbal magician of serious intention, and a virtuoso in the art of unmasking the ghoulish horror and inconsolable sadness that lurk often just below the surface of the comic. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 396 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 September 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFew surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronian courtier and eventual victim Petronius. Fragmentary, opaque, and enigmatic, at times it seems that deception and obfuscation are the favorite tricks of its author. A Reading of Petronius Satyricon offers a fresh look at this genre-defying masterpiece, proceeding episode by episode and scene by scene through a vision of the hell that humanity has fashioned for itself. Petronius mercilessly and exactingly appraises Rome's embrace of the Golden Age dreams of the Augustan principate, judging his fellow citizens and himself by the yardstick of the Neronian reign that broods over them like an avenging specter. Petronius Satyricon offers medicine for ambulatory corpses, a prescription that consists of notifying the dead of the diagnosis and of pointing out the inevitable and eminently logical antidote for those consumed by insatiable hunger and unfulfillable longing. Bitterly sardonic and preternaturally serene, Lee Fratantuono's reading reveals Petronius to be nothing less than the ultimate literary voice of a dying dynasty, a prose and poetic verbal magician of serious intention, a virtuoso in the art of unmasking the ghoulish horror and inconsolable sadness that lurk often just below the surface of the comic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 730g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 239 x 160 x 27 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781666933055\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee Fratantuono","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44584326299898,"sku":"9781666933055","price":107.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1695401271688_book.jpg?v=1695494794","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/a-reading-of-petronius-satyrica-9781666933055","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}