Theatrical Elements in the "Satyrica" of Petronius
Panayotakis, Costas, PhD (Lecturer in Classics, Glasgow University)
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Hardback
240 pages
Published: 1995
Publisher: Brill
ISBN / EAN: 9004102299
Examines the possible influence of Roman comic drama (Plautus and Terence, the Greek and Roman mimes, and "fabula Atellana") on the surviving fragments of Petronius's "Satyrica". The theatrical analysis of this work is performed as if it were the narrati