TY - BOOK AU - Petronius. TI - Satyrica SN - 9789350091982 U1 - FIC PET PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Everyman KW - Satire, Latin KW - Translations into English KW - Rome KW - Fiction KW - ancient Latin literature N2 - Petronius Arbiter was the Arbiter of Elegance at the court of the extravagant young Nero. Little is known of his life except for the extraordinary way he ended it, described in telling detail by the historian Tacitus. Petronius' comic masterpiece, the Satyrica - famous not least for its namesake, Fellini Satyricon (1969) - is generally recognized as one of the most original and engaging works to survive from ER -