Petronius has, in many ways, survived his suicide nearly two thousand years ago. And, although the remains of his work are in tatters, (1) both the text and its author have had a generative effect on writers, poets, scandalmongers, would-be pornographers, composers, and others who have created something new in and between the extant fragments of text and biography. The broadest modern acquaintance with Petronius and the Satyrica perhaps comes through Fellini's 1969 film Fellini Satyricon, which interprets many episodes of the Satyrica (with some inserted portrayals of scenes ...

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