The Satyricon And The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
A fragmented, darkly comic pair of ancient Roman satires follows the roving narrator and his companions through bawdy, picaresque adventures and social excesses—most famously the grotesquely detailed dinner of a nouveau-riche freedman—using erotic escapades, surreal episodes, and sharp irony to expose corruption, pretension, and moral decay in urban life; appended is a short, biting mock-apotheosis that lampoons an imperial figure by staging a farcical divine trial and reductive ‘pumpkinification,’ skewering the pretensions of power with savage wit.
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- Alternate Titles
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- Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii
- Satyricon
- The Gourdification of Claudius
- The Pumpkinification of Claudius
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