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Petronius's Satyricon is famous today primarily for the amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast," also celebrated in Fellini's film, Satyricon. But this episode is only one part of the larger picture offered by the work.
In The Hidden Author, Professor Conte starts with the structure of the work as a whole, inviting the reader to appreciate the elements of irony and fantasy woven into the text. The author has hidden himself with the aim of striking at the vanity of the contemporary cultured scene, handing over his stage to his characters, who are living in various sorts of degradation, but who see themselves, in minds overactively appropriating a great literary heritage, as figures of mythic proportions.
In the foreground of Petronius's work can be seen the follies and excesses of the Rome of Nero's time; in the background, the outlines of the intellectual life of the early Empire.
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History and criticism, In literature, Latin Satire, Satire, Latin, Petronius arbiter, Satire, history and criticism, Rome, in literature, TRAVEL, Special Interest, Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, Literature, Satyricon (Petronius), Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures, Languages & Literatures, Satyricon (Petronius Arbiter)People
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The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon (Sather Classical Lectures)
March 15, 1997, University of California Press
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The hidden author: an interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon
1996, University of California Press
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"Let me warn you at once that I am going to adopt a curious critical strategy: I shall be interpreting a complete sequence of the Satyricon as if it were part of a text written in a pathetic and elevated style."
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