{"product_id":"2026200016201-secondhand-the-satyricon","title":"The Satyricon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of antiquity's most dazzling and subversive literary masterpieces, The Satyricon plunges the reader into the decadent underbelly of Neronian Rome, following the misadventures of the roguish narrator Encolpius and his companions as they navigate a world of excess, trickery, and scandalous escapades. Written by Petronius — the arbiter of elegance at Nero's imperial court — this wickedly comic narrative unfolds as a picaresque mosaic of banquets, seductions, and social satire, most memorably crystallised in the legendary Cena Trimalchionis, the feast of the grotesquely nouveau-riche freedman Trimalchio. Paul Dinnage's new, unexpurgated translation restores the full, unfiltered audacity of the original Latin, presenting modern readers with the text as Petronius truly intended it.\n\nThe Satyricon stands as a towering monument of world literature — a work that simultaneously chronicles the moral bankruptcy of an empire and invents, nearly two millennia before the novel's formal emergence, the art of prose fiction. Petronius writes with a sardonic wit and an anthropologist's eye, skewering the vanities of the Roman nouveau riche while rendering his low-life characters with startling psychological depth. Its influence reverberates through Boccaccio, Rabelais, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who borrowed the name Trimalchio in his early drafts of The Great Gatsby. For those who have never encountered this ancient renegade of letters, this unexpurgated edition is the essential — and essential unruly — place to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342773493979,"sku":"2026200016201-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7f4b8fad-5ecc-44f6-b8f0-3bba113883a6.png?v=1790049068","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016201-secondhand-the-satyricon","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}