The complete online text of The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Petronius.

The Roman voluptuary Petronius Arbiter (died ca. 66) is the ascribed author of the Satyricon, a fragmentary picaresque novel generally considered one of the most brilliant productions of Latin literature. The "Arbiter" of the ascribed author's name is cl...

"One of the most licentious and repulsive works in Roman literature" is the way W. E. H. Lecky describes the Satyrica (Satyricon, before A.D. 66) in his History of European Morals (1911). The English critic and novelist Cyril Connolly in Enemies of Promi...

"One of the most licentious and repulsive works in Roman literature" is the way W. E. H. Lecky describes the Satyrica (Satyricon, before A.D. 66) in his History of European Morals (1911). The English critic and novelist Cyril Connolly in Enemies of Promi...

Petronius Satyricon, translated & with commentaries by Sarah Ruden. Hackett, 256 pages, $9.95 paper The Satyricon is the Ulysses of Roman literature. It is a comic novel intoxicated with language, with the power of verbal craft. As Joyce deploys Hamlet, so Petronius...