| #810957 in Books | 1975-01-01 | 1913-01-31 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x1.00 x4.00l,.79 | File type: PDF | 544 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Defective copy|By margie kindt|This is a wonderful edition and one of my favorite publishers, but there are pages that did not print and are blank--for example pp. 116-17, 120-21, 124-25, 128-29, 132-33, 136-37, 140-41 and 144-45.
The missing text, of course, disrupts and diminishes the story and the whole reading experience.
If the publisher would replace
Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (41–54 CE) and Nero (54–68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was governor of the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a consul, showing h...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Petronius: Satyricon; Seneca: Apocolocyntosis (Loeb Classical Library No. 15) | Petronius, Seneca.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
