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Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys

  • Written by Tom Stevenson, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, UQ, The University of Queensland
Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boysMusée d'Orsay

The Satyricon by Petronius is an unusual surviving text from the ancient world. It is not a work of history, nor a work of soaring epic poetry like Homer’s Iliad or Virgil’s Aeneid, and for various reasons it is hard to get a handle on.

Its contents are pretty grubby because it is about lowlifes and lowlife...

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