Petronius : a handbook / / edited by Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath ; contributors, Jean Andreau [and thirteen others]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 873.01; 873/.01
• Soggetto topico: Satire, Latin - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PragJ. R. W
• Persona (resp. second.): RepathIan; AndreauJean
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reading the Satyrica / Niall W. Slater -- Petronius and Greek Literature / J. R. Morgan -- Petronius and the Roman literary tradition / Costas Panayotakis -- Letting the page run on : poetics, rhetoric, and noise in the Satyrica / Victoria Rimell -- Sex in the Satyrica : outlaws in literatureland / Amy Richlin -- The Satyrica and Neronian culture / Caroline Vout -- Freedmen in the Satyrica / Jean Andreau -- A funny thing happened on my way to the market : reading Petronius to write economic history / Koenraad Verboven -- At home with the dead : Roman funeral traditions and Trimalchio's tomb / Valerie M. Hope -- Freedmen's cribs : domestic vulgarity on the Bay of Naples / Shelley Hales -- Petronius' Satyrica and the novel in English / Stephen Harrison -- Fellini-Satyricon / Joanna Paul.
• Sommario/riassunto: Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world.Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading
• Titolo autorizzato: Petronius
• ISBN: 1-118-55663-1; 1-118-90235-1; 1-282-02628-3; 9786612026287; 1-4443-0606-5; 1-4443-0607-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146114503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II