2006
| Short excerpt: I received these wounds while fighting for the public liberty; I lost this eye in your defense: give me a guide who will lead me to my children, my limbs are hamstrung and will not hold me up. |
1993
| One of the great works of world literature, Satyricon has remained popular since ancient times. The Roman dandy Petronius was the "arbiter of elegance" to Nero, and was driven to suicide by false charges of treason. His great work, the Satyricon, of which only fragments survive, was a picaresque fiction satirizing contemporary behavior and parodying forms of literature. The story details the peregrinations and misfortunes, literary, gustatory, and obscene, of a homosexual scholar tramp doomed to....[more] |
1996
| Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his charms, are invited to a gargantuan banquet hosted by the prodigal, pompous, newly rich Trimalchio. When the feast turns into a riot, the two, joined by the down-on-his-luck poet Eumolpus, leave town quickly to avoid trouble. So begins theSatyrica, a bizarre odyssey through the carnivalesque landscape of Nero's empire. The author of theSatyrica,Petronius, had been Nero's inti....[more] |
2004
| 1922. With an essay by Charles Whibley. Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that of Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion. The Satyricon is a romance with skillfully drawn characters, written in prose interspersed with verse. Parts of the 15th and 16th books have been preserved. Among the surviving fragments the most complete and valuable section is the Cena Trimalchionis, presenting a humorous episode of vulgar display on the part of a man who....[more] |
2004
| An entertaining romp through the salacious world of Roman society. Dr. Nest's spirited translation of the scrolls, abundant with ironic wit, charm, lampoonery and eroticism, serves well to bring this first modern novel to life. |
2000
| Lingua Latina is a complete immersion course providing Latin that students read and understand immediately. Books are arranged by groups, books for the first year course, (one year college or two years of high school Latin) and second year. Selection from |
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