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aims of Petronius' work
Author_Aldo Setaioli
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631605837
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book aims to provide a comprehensive inquiry into the short metrical intermezzos inserted in the prose narrative of Petronius’ Satyrica. The text of each poem has been thoroughly investigated; in addition, special attention has been devoted to their function in the context and to the aspects connecting Petronius with the literature and culture of his time. Numerous contacts with other ancient authors have been pointed out to illustrate Petronius’ attitude to the cultural and literary heritage on the one hand, and the character of his own work on the other.
Aldo Setaioli is professor emeritus of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Perugia (Italy). He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, never losing sight of Greek antecedents and devoting special attention to such authors as Seneca, Virgil and his commentators, Horace, Petronius, and several others, as well as to afterlife beliefs in the Greek and Roman world down to late antiquity.
