The Works of Petronius Arbiter, Translated by Several Hands, With a Key by a Person of Honour and Also His Life and Character To Which is Added, Some other of the Roman Poets, Vix. Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius. and Translations from the Greek of Pindare, Anacreon and Sappho. With a Poem on Telemachus by the Duke of Devonshire; and an Essay on Poetry by John Duke of Buckingham The Whole Adorn'd with Cuts

St. Evremont, Monsieur

Published by Sam. Briscoe, London, 1713

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Pp. (14), 10, (6), 360, (8). Petronius Arbiter was a consul and court official under Nero. Noted for his Sybaritic life style, he commited suicide after being falsely implicated in a plot against the Emperor. his Satyricon, which exists only in fragments (books 14?16) and describes the amoral adventures of two younts in the Greek cities of Southern Italy, incorporates a series of amorous adventures and misfortunes that it a classic of erotic literature, but it is also a humorous critique of the immortality, vulgarity, and corruption of Roman society by one who knew that side of things all too well. The present example is the fourth edition of this english translation done by Thomas Brown and others, with much matter added to the Satyricon: a life of Petronius Arbiter by Charles de Saint? Vremond, English translationsof a number of poems by additional Roman poets (mostly rather earthy, vigorous works) a piece by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, inspired by the archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus, and a verse form essay on poetry by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham. The volume is illustrated with 8 copper engraved plates out of 11 by various hands, which accompany non erotic portions of the text and depict a wedding, the siege of Troy, a shipwreck, the Ephesian matron removing her husband's corpse, the death of the the holy goose & more. Spine damaged with loss, some loose pages & plates. Fair +. Full calf. Seller Inventory # G20333

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Title: The Works of Petronius Arbiter, Translated ...

Publisher: Sam. Briscoe, London

Publication Date: 1713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair