by Cayo Petronio Arbitro · Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605463
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«El Satiricón» is the satirical novel by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, published by Cátedra in paperback (297 pages, in Spanish).
Petronius narrates in the first person the adventures of Encolpius, a young man who makes his way with his friends in a world marked by corruption and licentiousness in first-century Rome. A fragmentary and seminal work of classical literature, it combines verse and prose, cultivated and vulgar Latin, and includes famous episodes such as the dinner of Trimalchio.
Edition by Julio Picasso, who also provides the translation, in the Letras Universales collection from Cátedra.
Recommended for readers interested in Greco-Roman classics and the origins of the Western novel.
Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.
