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Petronius

Born

Massalia (Marseille), Roman empire

Died

January 21, 0065

Genre

Humor and Comedy, Classics

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People credit Roman courtier Gaius Petronius, known as Petronius Arbiter, with writing the Satyricon .

People generally think that he during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar, which began in 54, authored this satirical novel.

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Alternative spellings for Petronius:

Brazilian Portuguese: Petrônio
French: Pétrone
Spanish: Petronio
Greek: Πετρώνιος

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Average rating: 3.78 · 12,094 ratings · 862 reviews · 219 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Satyricon by Petronius, Piero Chiara (Translator), P.G. Walsh (Translator), Federico Roncoroni (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 9,092 ratings — published 60 — 838 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius, Seneca, J.P. Sullivan (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 1,529 ratings — published 66 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trimalchio's Feast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #21) by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan (Translator) 3.24 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 66 — 186 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and the Fragments by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan 3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections From The Satyricon by Petronius, Leon Danilovics (Illustrator), Gilbert Lawall 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow of Ephesus 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon Reliquiae by Petronius, Konrad Müller (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World's Oldest Short Stories: Tales from Ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Rome by Petronius, Apuleius, Theocritus 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uczta Trymalchiona by Petronius, Petroniusz, Leopold Staff (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

tags: ancient, humour, irony, latin, nonsense, satyre, stupidity, text, the-satyricon, trimalchio

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“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
― Petronius Arbiter

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“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

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Meditation by Franz Kafka, 1912, 80 pp

34 votes, 30.1%

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 1913, 159 pp

22 votes, 19.5%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900, 455 pp

20 votes, 17.7%

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 1908, 182 pp

18 votes, 15.9%

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pp

10 votes, 8.8%

The Satyricon by Petronius, 60, 272 pp

9 votes, 8.0%

113 total votes

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