Satyricon
Americannoun
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But catch his cameo in "Satyricon"; you’ll see the haunted gauntness in his eyes and know that, for two decades, he was also killing himself with food.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024
In the second passage, an excerpt from Petronius’s Satyricon, the formerly enslaved Trimalchio mistreats his own enslaved people during a lavish dinner party.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
"Fellini: The Sixties," by Manoah Bowman: Focused on the director's most iconic work, including "Dolce Vita," ''81/2," ''Juliet of the Spirits" and "Fellini Satyricon."
From US News ● Nov. 16, 2015
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literatureby Suzette Field A freed Roman slave turned shipping merchant, Trimalchio throws possibly the most extravagant dinner party in literature, which forms the cornerstone of The Satyricon.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2012
But with regard to the rest we shall run small risk in regarding them as selected from the lost books of the Satyricon.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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