Arbiter Gaius Petronius (90 results)

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PAPERBACK. 204pp. 204pp. Includes List of Characters & Text Notes. Penguin Classics. Translation by J.P. Sullivan, published 1965. REPRINTED with Revisions 1974. VG+. (Paper aged but NOT foxed or browned. Meager cover wear, interior clean/tight/bright, no names or writings).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Duodecimo (12mo); xii, 347pp. Bound in wheat cloth spine and textured paper boards; gold title labels on spine and top board. Mild aging and wear, else a good clean copy. A title among the Routledge series "Broadway Translations," published circa 1920s.…

HARDCOVER. no jacket. xxii. + 238pp. + catalogue. Undated Modern Library Reprint. Full red-violet cloth covers. VG/no jacket. (light cover soil, paper aged. previous owner's signature on endpaper else a clean/unmarked/tight copy).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. no date given (circa 1950?); dj w/clipped price, lite wear, in mylar; red Blumenthal binding; (#156 in series, lists to 322 titles on dj reverse); 238 clean, unmarked pages.

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Satyricon. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. no date given (circa 1929?); red flexible c w/gilt titles; Rockwell Kent end papers; lite sunning of spine; (#156 in series, lists to 284 titles on dj reverse); 238 clean, unmarked pages+catalogue.

Übers. nach Konrad Müller "Petronii Arbitri Satyricon" 1978). Essay, Übers. a.d. Lat. u. (ausführl.) Anmerkungen v. Volker Ebersbach. Kl.-8°. 228 S. Illustr. OKart. (= RUB 1041). Enth. u.a. Quartillas Rache u. Das Gastmahl des Trimalchio. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, im Schnitt leicht stärker; schönes sauberes Expl. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age - and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self-made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on an insanely grand scale makes him one of the great comic characters in literature. Seneca's The Apocolocyntosis, a malicious skit on 'the deification of Claudius the Clod', was designed by the author to ingratiate himself with Nero, who was Claudius' successor. Together, the two provide a powerful insight into a darkly fascinating period of Roman history. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardbound, no dust jacket, within slipcase. Some minor wear to slipcase, otherwise very good. Neil Packer (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xxiv, 218 Pp. Orange Cloth Printed In Black. First Printing, A Scholarly Edition, Dedicated To Saul Bellow. Book Is Fine, No Damage; Dj Priced $3.95, Faint Rubbing, No Browning But Spine Very Slightly Faded.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reissue. Reissue. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, boards lightly soiled. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1934 Hard Cover. lxxxv, [1], 408, [4] pp. 8vo. Original orange cloth, blue titles. Translation attributed to Oscar Wilde, with an introduction by 'S.W.', and illustrations by Allen Lewis. Notes, bibliography, and index follow text. "Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin novel, believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript text of the Satyricon calls him Titus Petronius. The surviving text, a mixture of prose and poetry, details the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius' friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character but he disappears from the narrative half way through the surviving text. It is a rare example of a Roman novel, the only other surviving example (quite different in style and plot) being Metamorphoses written by Lucius Apuleius. It is also extremely important evidence for the reconstruction of what everyday life must have been like for the lower classes during the early Roman Empire.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age - and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self-made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on an insanely grand scale makes him one of the great comic characters in literature. Seneca's The Apocolocyntosis, a malicious skit on 'the deification of Claudius the Clod', was designed by the author to ingratiate himself with Nero, who was Claudius' successor. Together, the two provide a powerful insight into a darkly fascinating period of Roman history. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. …

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HARDCOVER. VG dj. 258pp. 258pp. Green cloth covers. Gilt stamped spine. SEWN signature binding. Deckle edge. Jacket subtitle: 'A True Record of Roman Pro-fligacy in the Reign of Nero. With the last drops of his life-blood.etc. Book Collectors Association. UNCOMMON with a Jacket. Former owner's old plastic wrap removed. Meager tape 'ghosts' on endpapers. NOT a former library copy. VG+/VG dj. Estate acquisition. Pages 80-81 tanned from a related newspaper clipping: no text loss. No names or writings; no spine creasing. UNCOMMON jacket limp, small edge chips in places o/w complete/bright for 1934.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's full black cloth, spine in five compartments separated by gilt borders, gilt lettering in red panels in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt and red medallion on cover, red endpapers. n.d. (cir. 1960). Translated by W. Burnaby. Introduction by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. The volume is in very good condition, with minor rubbing and slight wear at the head and heel of the spine, else fine; tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. World's Great Literature. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxii, 238 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited/Numbered Edition. Slight abrasion to head edge of front pastedown. Slightest rubbing to spine ends. Ink stamp to rear endpaper. Lacks the publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket chipped at head and tail edges, split along spine, but together in a paper-backed mylar jacket.; This is Gaius Petronius Arbiter's classic satire of the extremes of amoral 'bro culture' in ancient Rome. Copy 625 of 1200 of this edition, "privately printed" during a time of US censorship. The origins of the text are vague, but are believed to be the work of Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman Emperor Nero's advisor on matters of taste, fashion, luxury, and extravagance. This book is his satirical retelling of the self-indulgent extremes of immoral living. The manuscript was fragmented, not contiguous, and there are only assumptions about what fragments may be missing and how they linked the known fragments. This edition's 16 chapters are 16 of the book's fragments in what scholars believe to be in logical order and the work as a whole is often considered to be the first novel, though not in the modern form. The title page states, "Translation ascribed to Oscar Wilde," but that is likely nonsense. This edition may be a reprint of the Charles Carrington edition that attributed its translation to Wilde, but there appears to be no scholarship that supports that assertion. "Privately Printed," with no publisher stated, to obfuscate the edition's origin during a time of US censorship and efforts to force a morality on the public. So. why should you read this book? The protagonists were men who were not monied, frequently destitute due to their own actions, but had enough societal privilege to evade most consequences of careening through life as morality-free, self-centered sociopaths. The book's narrative approach documents the protagonists' personal excesses of every type: gluttony, violence, staggering inebriation, faithless relationships that shifted with the wind, sex with anything on two legs, political posturing, and manipulation of everyone they encountered. It was 'all in a day's work' for the 0.1% uppermost class of the ancient Roman world. With that kind of story line, it's not surprising that the book was adapted into a 1969 film by Federico Fellini. Bound in slick, black cloth over boards with gilt titling to front and spine. Printed on light buff mould-made paper with the head of the text block roughly cut and the fore and tail edges uncut. The dust jacket is chipped, split, and Good condition, but together and presentable in a paper-backed mylar jacket. This is an attractive, clean, Near Fine copy that's ready to astonish and amuse you, if I may take the liberty of personifying the book.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [1],2-236 pages.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red cloth, rubbing and a few marks to the cloth. Annotated copy, annotated and underlined in places in ink, and with the original owners name on the endpaper. Pages; XLVI, 497 + Loeb publisher list. Includes Satyricon by Petronius (which takes up 384 of the 497 pages). English and Latin text.…