As this work opens, the protagonist quotes his teacher Agamemnon in a tirade against contemporary rhetoric.
As this work opens, the protagonist quotes his teacher Agamemnon in a tirade against contemporary rhetoric. Its second part describes the protagonist's narrow escape from Lady Quartilla, and in its fourth part the poems Troiae Halosis and the Bellum Civile are satirized. The work centers on the protagonist's attempts to woo away from his friend Ascyltos the slave boy Giton, although its most memorable episode is Trimalchio's dinner party. For 10 points-- name this novel about the misadventures of Encolpius by Petronius Arbiter.
As this work opens, the protagonist quotes his teacher Agamemnon in a tirade against contemporary rhetoric.
{Satyricon }or Petronii Arbitri Saturicon