A companion to petronius - Courtney, Edward (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001)
Introduction I I. The Author 5 II. Preliminaries 12 (i) The Novel Genre as Background 12 (ii) The Employment of Verse 31 (iii) First-Person Narrative 35 (iv) The Identity of the Protagonists 39 (v) The Lost Early Books 43 (vi) Characterization 49 III. Book XIV 54 (i) 1-5, Rhetoric 54 (ii) 6-II, a Quarrel 62 (iii) 12-15, the Stolen Cloak 64 (iv) I6.i-26.6, Quartilla and an Orgy 65 IV. The Feast of Trimalchio 72 (i) 26.7-3 1.I 72 (ii) 32.1-36.8 82 (iii) 37.1-41.8 86 (iv) 41.9-46.8, Conuiuarum Sermones 90 (v) 47.1-65.2 95 (vi) 65.3-78.8 108 (vii) Overview of the Cena 123 V. Eumolpus replaces Ascyltos 127 (i) 79-82, Another Quarrel 127 (ii) 83-90, In the Picture-Gallery 133 (iii) 91-99, In the Inn 144 VI. The Voyage 152 (i) The Odyssey and the Wrath of Priapus 152 (ii) 100.1-110.5, Lichas and Tryphaena Encountered Again 157 (iii) 110.6-112.8, the Widow of Ephesus 165 (iv) 113-115, the Shipwreck 173 VII. Croton 178 (i) 116-117, Laying the Plot for Legacy-Hunting 178 (ii) 118, the Literary Theory of Eumolpus 181 (iii) 119.1-124.1, the Bellum Ciuile 184 (iv) 124.2-125.4, Resumption of Legacy-Hunting 189 (v) 126.1-139.4, Circe 190 (vi) 139.5-141.11, Legacy-Hunting Again 207 VIII. Overall Aspects 214 (i) Mens ingentiflumine litterarum inundata 214 (ii) Sex in Petronius 222 (iii) Symbolism in Petronius 226.
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Keywords: Petronio Arbitro, Cayo; Sátira latina-estudios; Literatura latina-estudios