This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.
The Satyrica of Petronius is a one-of-a-kind satirical comic novel in Latin: an engaging narrative of the shady, sex-and-cash-engrossed lives of men and women in provincial first-century Italy. No critical edition in English of comparable scope exists. In this treatment, Wade Richardson, after a life's work on the Satyrica, investigates and delineates the ingenuity and skill of the author in all features of writerly craft, within the framework of the latest critical text and a translation lively enough to satisfy the demands of today's audiences.
Incorporating eighty new and fully argued emendations, the bulk of this volume is a facing-page text and translation, choosing English for the obverse (recto), with elaborative notes, and Latin for the reverse (verso), with an abundant apparatus. This is preceded by an introduction describing the multifarious problems posed by author and work. The edition is intended to give pure enjoyment to everyone
from curious students of Latin and beyond, including their teachers and professors
by providing a unique linguistic, literary, and cultural exposure to the author and his work.
Text by:
Wade Richardson
Introduction by:
Wade Richardson
Translated with commentary by:
Wade Richardson
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 63
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781487550714
ISBN 10: 1487550715
Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction: Petronius the (Comic) Novelist 1. The Author and His Date and His Work 2. The Manuscript Transmission and the Making of LOH and the Text 3. The Register of Shared or Singular Text Content in the LOH Classes 4. The Plot and the Characterization 5. The Sex: via Libido and Libidinosus, Showing Speaker and Gender Target 6. The Freedmen and Their Table Talk and Trimalchio 7. The Latin and the Translation 8. The Stemmata and the Sigla of the Manuscripts and Earliest Editions 9. The Sigla of the Manuscripts and Editions for the Apparatus Criticus 10. The List of Scholars Cited in the Apparatus Criticus Petronii: The Latin Text and Apparatus Satyrica: The English Translation with Footnotes Annex: Argued Emendations Adopted in the Text, with Directory Aggregate Bibliography Index
Wade Richardson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.
