{"product_id":"the-satyricon-complete","title":"The Satyricon — Complete","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens to love, art and honesty when everyone is hungry for money, pleasure or applause?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Satyricon, Encolpius has some education and no steady income. He drifts through southern Italy with Giton, his lover, and Ascyltos, his companion and rival. Affection sparks quarrels, and the search for easy gain leads to bizarre scrapes. This fragmentary Latin comic novel, usually linked to Petronius, offers no tidy path through its world of appetite and schemes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center stands Trimalchio’s lavish dinner, where a former slave wants every guest to admire his wealth and taste. Around him, guests talk in rough, lively slang. Elsewhere, hungry students, cheats and bad poets crowd the scene. Prose mingles with verse, ghost stories and street talk, while the jokes expose a world where almost everyone wants something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA feast of vanity\u003c\/strong\u003e – Join Trimalchio’s guests as lavish hospitality becomes a display of wealth and wounded pride.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLove tangled with rivalry\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos through jealous quarrels, shifting affection and clever escapes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRoman life from below\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet freedmen, drifters and hungry students whose rough talk gives the satire its bite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry meets street talk\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover a restless mix of verse, sermons, ghost stories and quarrels within the surviving fragments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppetite under the jokes\u003c\/strong\u003e – Look beneath the rude humor at what the pursuit of pleasure does to honesty.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love sharp comedy, rude humor and ordinary ancient life, and welcome frank sexual content over a finished plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and follow Encolpius into this loud, unruly world of hunger and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534588707164,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/00023_en_ebook-front_c23.jpg?v=1792174927","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/the-satyricon-complete","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}