The Satyricon of Petronius

Description:

An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals.

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People: Petronius Arbiter,  Claudius Emperor of Rome (10 B.C.-54 A.D)

Places: Rome,  Pompeii (Extinct city),  Italy,  Rome (Empire)

Times: Nero, 54-68