The Hidden Author by Gian Biagio Conte
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, Trimalchio's Feast. In this discussion of Petronius' masterful use of parody, the author offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole.-
Laughter in Ancient Rome
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Shame and Necessity, Second Edition
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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Sallust
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Development of the Attic Black-Figure, Revised edition
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
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The Revolutions of Wisdom
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The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
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Polybius
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The Greeks and the Rational
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An Archaeology of Greece
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The Art of Living
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The Ancient Economy
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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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Change and Decline
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Scenes from Greek Drama
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Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
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Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
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From Homer to Menander
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The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times
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A Free Will
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Homer the Preclassic
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Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome
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Fiction as History
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A Greek State in Formation
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The Mask of Socrates
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Platonism
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Poetic, Scientific and Other Forms of Discourse
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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
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Who Were the Greeks?
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Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography
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Roman Satire
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Ovid
Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy, and is author of, among many works, Latin Literature: A History (1994).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520207158 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520207157 |
| Title | The Hidden Author |
| Author | Gian Biagio Conte |
| Series | Sather Classical Lectures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1997-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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