The Satyricon - Petronius, Alfred R. Allinson

Petronius, Alfred R. Allinson

Category: Classic

Narrator: Nicholas Boulton

Tags: Classic, Literature

Duration: 6 hrs and 55 mins, [Translated by Alfred R. Allinson], Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from ancient Rome. It tells the ribald story of Encolpius, a man of active and varied appetites (powered notably by his passion for his favourite lover, the handsome Giton), who plunges without inhibition into the life of Roman pleasures: orgies of food, feasting, abundant sex and escapades., The kind of hedonism found occasionally in Roman mosaics is here brought to life. In the feast at the house of Trimalchio we have an extraordinary account of a Roman banquet where dish after dish - each more extravagant than the last - is presented to the diners, who lie on their couches for course after course. And after all that they still find the energy to indulge in intense pleasures of a different kind. Again and again., There are historical questions around the author - Petronius (c27-66 CE), who lived during the time