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	Petronius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If, however, we accept the identification of this author with the Petronius of Tacitus, Nero's courtier, we must suppose either that Marseille was his birthplace or, as is more likely, that Sidonius refers to the novel itself and that its scene was partly laid at Marseille.
		The high position among Latin writers ascribed by Sidonius to Petronius, and the mention of him by Macrobius beside Menander among the humorists, when compared with the absolute silence of Quintilian, Juvenal and Martial, seem adverse to the opinion that the Satyricon was a work of the age of Nero.
		In the novel Quo Vadis and its versions, C. Petronius is the preferred courtier of Nero, using his wit to adulate and mock him at the same time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petronius_Arbiter (870 words)

	The Satyricon of Petronius
		Gaius Petronius (~27-66 A.D.), the author of the Satyricon, was the emperor Nero's advisor in matters of luxury and extravagance (his unofficial title was arbiter elegantiae).
		He was a lover of style, manners, and literature, and his personality was characterized by freedom, a lack of self-consciousness, a loose tongue, and an attitude.
		Petronius probably read it in installments to his friends, and possibly to the court of Nero.
	www.southwestern.edu /~carlg/Latin_Web/satyriconnotes.html (1071 words)

	Satyricon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Written around 60 CE, the tale is a mixture of prose and poetry detailing the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, his friend Ascyltus, and Giton, their attendant and love object.
		There is perhaps not a single sentence in Petronius which implies any knowledge of or sympathy with the existence of affection, conscience or honour, or even the most elementary goodness of heart.
		The style of the work, where it does not purposely reproduce the solecisms and colloquialisms of the vulgar rich, is of the purest Latin of the Silver ages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satyricon (1190 words)

	PETRONIUS - LoveToKnow Article on PETRONIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And the impression of his personality does in another respect correspond closely with the Petronius of the Annalsin the union of immoral sensualism with a rich vein of cynical humour and admirable taste.
		We recognize the arbiter eleganliae in the admirable sense of the remarks scattered through it on education, on art, on poetry and on eloquence.
		Lexicon to Petronius by Segehade and Lommatsch (Leipzig,, 1898).
	90.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PETRONIUS.htm (3407 words)

	Petronius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Petronius Arbiter (see below), but the (Handwritten book or document) manuscript text of the (Click link for more info and facts about Satyricon) Satyricon calls him Titus Petronius.
		If, however, we accept the identification of this author with the Petronius of (Click link for more info and facts about Tacitus) Tacitus, Nero's courtier, we must suppose either that Marseilles was his birthplace or, as is more likely, that Sidonius refers to the novel itself and that its scene was partly laid at Marseilles.
		A fact confirmatory of the general truth of this graphic portrait is added by (Click link for more info and facts about the elder Pliny) the elder Pliny, who mentions that just before his death he destroyed a valuable murrhine vase to prevent its falling into the imperial hands.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/petronius.htm (856 words)

	Petronius Arbiter Biography / Biography of Petronius Arbiter Main Biography
		The "Arbiter" of the ascribed author's name is clearly intended to imply an identification with the Petronius who is called elegantiae arbiter, or judge of elegance, by Tacitus, and whose death by suicide in 66 is described by Tacitus in a famous passage.
		The author's identity has been vigorously disputed by those who feel that the novel should rather be ascribed, on the basis of style, customs described, and other internal evidence, to the 2d or 3d century, but the majority of scholars are willing to accept the former identification as probable.
		Petronius had proved his ability as proconsul (governor) of Bithynia and later as consul under Nero.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-petronius-arbiter/index.html (223 words)

	ipedia.com: Petronius Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Petronius Arbiter was a Roman writer of the Neronian age.
		The high position among Latin writers ascribed by Sidonius to Petronius, and the mention of him beside Menander by Macrobius, when compared with the absolute silence of Quintilian, Juvenal and Martial, seem adverse to the opinion that the Satirae was a work of the age of Nero.
		The style of the work, where it does not purposely reproduce the solecisms and colloquialisms of the vulgar rich, is of the purest Latin of the Silver agess.
	www.ipedia.com /petronius.html (1720 words)

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		"director of elegance" (arbiter elegantiae), whose word on all matters of taste was law.
		What Petronius thought of his imperial patron may be indicated by his treatment of the
		Petronius, though innocent, was arrested at Cumae in southern Italy; he did
	www.amherst.edu /~afrossi/comedy/petronius.html (386 words)

	Petronius on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Tigellinus, a rival for the favor of Nero, caused the arrest of Petronius, the latter ended his own life, at Cumae, by slashing his veins.
		The Latin style of Petronius is among the best of its period.
		One of Texaco's Petronius Deck Modules Falls During Installation; Incident Causes Delay To Deepwater Project.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/petroniu.asp (386 words)

	Satyricon Introduction
		The document therefore must necessarily have been brief; whereas the work we possess, too extensive as it stands to have been composed by a dying man, was originally of much greater length, for it seems proved by the titles affixed to the Manuscripts that nearly nine-tenths of the whole is lost.
		He won the title among his fellow courtiers of "arbiter elegantiae," a nickname that with time appears to have grown into a sort of surname, posterity knowing him universally as Petronius Arbiter.
		Petronius, who had a universal wit, hits upon the genius of all professions, and adapts himself, as he pleases, to a thousand different natures.
	www.igibud.com /petron/satyr/intro.html (5026 words)

	Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
		From the standpoint of environment, Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important.
		The vagrant heroes of Petronius are the originals from whom directly, or indirectly, later authors drew that inspiration which resulted in the great mass of picaresque fiction; but, great as this is, it is not to this that the Satyricon owes its powerful influence upon the literature of the world.
		From the very nature of the writings of such an author as Petronius, it is evident that the gaps in the text would have a marked tendency to stimulate the curiosity of literary forgers and to tempt their sagacity, literary or otherwise.
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	Petronius
		The name of one Gaius (?) Petronius who died in 65 A.D. has been for so long associated with the fragmentary novel called The Satyricon, that it seems petty at this time to argue the question of authorship.
		Tacitus does give in about a page a vignette of Petronius, formerly consul and a governor of Bithynia, adding that he was a man of undisputed taste, which led to his being called (or appointed?) arbiter elegantiae, an interesting and unique title, but one whose meaning is not really clear.
		The question still remains whether the kind of man Tacitus describes would be like to write a novel devoted to people of the lower classes, whether he would be as intimately aware of their language and their sociology as the writer of the Satyricon is.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/LatinAuthors/Petronius.html (800 words)

	PETRONIUS (G. (?)1 - Online Information article about PETRONIUS (G. (?)1
		Our fragments profess to be extracts from the fifteenth and sixteenth books of the Satirae: Petronius could not have composed one-tenth even of what we have in the time in which he is said to have composed his memorial to Nero.
		Swift are justly regarded as among the very greatest of satirists, and their estimate of human nature is perhaps nearly as unfavourable as that of Petronius; but their attitude towards human degradation is not one of complacent amusement; their See also:
		We recognize the arbiter elegantiae in the admirable sense of the remarks scattered through it on education, on art, on See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PETRONIUS_G_1.html (3084 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Satyricon: AND The Apocolocyntosis (Classics S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self-made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on an insanely grand scale makes him one of the great comic characters in literature.
		In "The Satyricon", Petronius parodies "The Odyssey", weighing the journey of Homer's Odysseus against the picaresque adventures of Encolpius, the bisexual yet impotent narrator, while the wrath of Poseidon is set against that of Priapus.
		Petronius alternates verse and prose in an explicit exposé of literary form by interpolating short tales of sex, superstition, and lost legacies.
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	Petronius Arbiter, Gaius -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		His proconsular imperium made Augustus the arbiter of peace and war, and an ostensible search for defensible...
		A comic adventure novel attributed to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, the Satyricon, or Satyricon liber (Book of Satyrlike Adventures), is a satirical literary portrait of Roman society of the 1st century AD.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059515?tocId=9059515 (517 words)

	FunnyBusiness: Would the Real Petronius Arbiter Please Stand Up?
		Arbiter evidently didn't have this brilliant insight in the year 210 B.C. Giving Mr.
		Arbiter, but rather a bulletin board joke, which created this much, sought after quote.
		Some disgruntled soldier of a literary bent, whether commissioned or noncommissioned I do not know, pinned this “quotation” to a bulletin board in one of the camps of the armies occupying Germany sometime after 1945 (the style suggests a British occupying force).
	funnybusiness.typepad.com /funnybusiness/2005/06/would_the_real_.html (443 words)

	Cartoons and Comics: Clinton Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since we do not have the software to convert them to.gif documents, we had to scan them into the pages, so some of them are not as perfect as we would like.
		We are hoping that Dr. Arbiter will agree to create some new cartoons about the George Bush administration in a format consistent with our website's requirements.
		The name "Petronius Arbiter" comes from an ancient Roman satirist who is famous for writing one book, The Satyricon.
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		He was known as Petronius Arbiter, because of his generally accepted identity with Gaius Petronius, to whom Tacitus refers as arbiter elegantiae in the court of Nero.
		When Tigellinus, a rival for the Nero’s favors, caused the arrest of Petronius, the latter ended his own life, at Cumae, by slashing his veins.
		The Latin style of Petronius is among the best from his period.
	euroliteratur.magister.ro:2005 /MLR/portal/alias__Euroliteratur/lang__en/tabID__100/DesktopDefault.aspx (201 words)

	The Roman Forum Project
		PETRONIUS: Oh, wait, wrong ballot, that's the one they sent to, ah, never mind that; here's the one I mean.
		PETRONIUS: Yes, because servicemen are voters and patriots, they get to vote once for their candidate of choice and once for their country.
		PETRONIUS represents the more cynical conservatives who recognize that there was no solid intellectual basis for the decision that was made.
	yin.arts.uci.edu /~players/RF2/script.html (7043 words)

	Arbiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We do know he was "Arbiter Elegantiae" or "judge of elegance" at Nero's court in Rome.
		Realizing that death, probably in nasty ways, was inevitable, Petronius committed suicide; before doing so, he is said to have sent Nero a letter containing a list of the tyrant's vices.
		He was clearly a very learned man, and many of his characters and anecdotes are taken from the lives of Roman nobles and emperors.
	www2.cedarcrest.edu /hon160/arbiter.htm (439 words)

	Online English Translation of The Satyricon by Petronius
		Petronius Arbiter: The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, trans.
		"Petronius" from "Short Bibliography of the Latin Language and Literature, compiled by M.G.M. van der Poel"
		"Petronius" from glossary entries pe to Pezhead from the incomparable Stammtisch Beau Fleuve
	www.igibud.com /petron/petron.html (269 words)

	Disinvoltura
		210 BC by Petronius the Arbiter, who was a famous satirist during the reign of Nero.
		Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC Petronius, 100 BC Petronius Arbiter - Greek Navy - 210 BC Gaius Petronius, a Roman centurion in 200BC
		Petronius Arbiter, 201 B.C. Gaius Petronius, Centurian, Rome, 1st Century.
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	Life. (from Petronius Arbiter, Gaius) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The most complete and the most authentic account of Petronius' life appears in Tacitus' Annals, an account that may be supplemented, with caution, from other sources.
		It is probable that Petronius' correct name was Titus Petronius Niger.
		From his high position in Roman society, it may be assumed that he was wealthy; he belonged to a noble family and was therefore, by Roman…;
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-5643?tocId=5643 (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Satyricon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is all that remains of what was apparently a much longer work - unless Petronius' allusions to lost episodes of the text are merely for effect, which they might be.
		Petronius drops his characters in one compromising situation after another - and leaves them to get themselves out.
		An often funny, and very "real" book written by Petronius, who was the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the Court of Nero.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198150121?v=glance (1078 words)

	The Sayricon of Petronius: Introduction
		Originally a large work in at least 20 books, with accounts of various adventures supposed to have taken place during a journey, it now consists of a heap of fragments, the most considerable of which is the Cena Trimalchionis, being the description of a feast given by a rich and uneducated upstart.
		Even the barbarisms and vulgarities of expressions that at times seem to disfigure his style, are in the eyes of Menage the perfection of art and appropriateness; he puts them only in the mouths of servants and debuachees devoid of any touch of refinement.
		Enothea, the Priestess of Priapus, ravishes me with the miracles she promises, with her enchantments, her sacrifices, her sorrow for the death of the consecrated goose, and the manner in which she is pacified when Polyaenus makes her a present, with which she might purchase a goose and gods too, if she thought fit.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/petro/satyr/sat01.htm (4607 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97006743 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Publisher description for Petronius the poet : verse and literary tradition in the Satyricon / Catherine Connors.
		Petronius' Satyricon, the oldest surviving work of prose fiction, is in many respects an arrestingly modern ancient novel but the inclusion within it of thirty short poems and two long ones introduces an alien feature in need of investigation.
		In this study, Catherine Connors draws on recent developments in Latin literary criticism to take a comprehensive approach to the Satyricon's poems, reminiscences of poetic texts, and the figure of the poet, assessing the ways in which they fragment and refashion established literary forms into a new amalgam of prose fiction.
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