The primary conflict of the work centers on the slave Giton, who attracts the affections of Asclytos and the main character.  
Francois Nodot and Jose Marchena are the two most prominent forgers of the lost portions of this work.  The main character sings a hymn to a deity "whom Lydians, far and wide adore" after which he is accosted by Oenothea.  That character was earlier led astray by an old woman selling country vegetables after listening to a speech on education, in which Agamemnon blames parents for their children's intellectual atrophy.  The primary conflict of the work centers on the slave Giton, who attracts the affections of Asclytos and the main character.  All three eventually flee with Eumolpus after attending the feast of Trimalchio in, FTP, what novel about the exploits of Encolpius, the best-known work of Gaius Petronius Arbiter?
Francois Nodot and Jose Marchena are the two most prominent forgers of the lost portions of this work.  
The Satyricon