by Petronio · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437621005
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«Satiricón» is Petronius's satirical novel, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Attributed to Petronius and considered one of the first Western novels, the Satyricon portrays everyday life in ancient Rome with irony through the adventures of a group of characters. This edition adds a careful translation and notes to make reading a complex text easier and to approach the society of two thousand years ago.
The book belongs to the Letras Universales collection; it is the second edition, published in June 2006.
It will interest students of classical literature and readers who want to approach one of the foundational works of Western narrative.
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.
