by Petronio Árbitro, Cayo · S. A. de Promoción y Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474612875
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«El Satiricón» is the satirical novel by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, published by S. A. de Promoción y Ediciones in hardback (261 pages, in Spanish).
«El Satiricón» narrates in the first person the adventures of Encolpius and his companions through first-century Italy, amid escapades, grotesque incidents and amorous intrigues. The novel portrays the corruption and licentiousness of the era and, along with The Golden Ass, is one of the testimonies of the novelistic genre in Rome.
El Satiricón was written in the first century AD and survives in fragmentary form. The edition dates from 1984 and belongs to collection Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal, number 49.
Recommended for readers interested in classical Latin literature and satire, as well as in the origins of the novel.
