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Satyricon
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Satyricon
tales of vice and luxury in imperial Rome. [Rom. Lit.: Satyricon]

Satyricon
novel by Petronius depicting social excesses in imperial Rome. [Rom. Lit.: Magill II, 938]
See : Decadence


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The Cena Trimalchionis The inverted and comic world of the Cena Trimalchionis derives much of its humor from the guests' laughter at Trimalchio's lavish displays of food and money.
Of course we must keep perspective: the Cena Trimalchionis makes up about one third of what survives of the Satyricon, and what survives of the Satyricon is barely an eighth of the presumed total 24 books.
38-51) looks into one of the best known passages from the Satyrica and the most extended of all as the text stands at the moment, the Cena Trimalchionis, and expands on what Schmeling has already mentioned in the previous essay as the models of the Cena, namely Plato's Symposium and Horace's Cena Nasidieni in Sat.
 
 
 
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