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Petronius: The SatyriconOxford World's Classics The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre, and recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literature scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean. En route they encounter type figures the author wickedly satirizes a teacher in higher education, a libidinous priest, a

This edition will enable students and their instructors to enter and enjoy Horace's lyric world

a young antiquarian scholar

Their long march

This edition attempts to set the play

playful and full of serious quandaries

The work is a document of prime importance for the classical Greek society which we study most and know best: it is set at the male heart of it

Ένα παραμυθένιο νησάκι του Αιγαίου

Τώρα όμως τον βιώνει κάθε μέρα

and carries on

of whom we know more than of any other Roman

surviving in more than 200 manuscripts

The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume provides full grammatical support together with numerous exercises at different levels