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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Petronius"”.
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Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica
… a case study, to explore one motif that Petronius uses throughout his work. The chosen topic is the use of descriptions of hair: how Petronius describes hair, where he includes it, and what significance he gives to it. Hair is a subject that was written about by prominent poets like Ovid …
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
<p>Persius, Petronius, and Seneca are often seen as "satirizing" Nero. It's common to read satire as moral critique, and who better to criticize than (Suetonius and Tacitus' construction of) Nero? But looking at the satire from a non-‐classical perspective, that of Bakhtin's grotesque, leads to an …
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Hostes deum: Magic in the literature of the Neronian period
… the three major authors of the period, namely, Petronius, Seneca, and Lucan. It endeavors to trace possible echoes of popular beliefs about magic and real witchcraft practices of the 1st century C.E. in the text of the Satyrica, the Medea, and the Bellum Ciuile. This is done through a close …
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… from the Garland of Philip and Latin texts of Petronius, Pliny the Elder, and Martial. This chapter combines close readings of rarely studied Greek literary epigrams with research into epigraphic sources and artefacts. Chapter 5 analyses how the carpe diem motif is cut up in anthologies and …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… not alone, if we are to admit the evidence of Petronius’ writings. <em>Topoi</em> may suggest the image of a tyrant, but they do not define personalities and actions. Historians may have witnessed events, but they also wrote about those events in a different regime and political climate. To …