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
A front row seat on the madness, it reads like a mashup of Heart of Darkness with Fellini’s Satyricon.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2019
"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
See Encolpius' pun upon the Embasicete in Satyricon, cap. iv.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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