Petronius (Author of The Satyricon)

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Petronius

Born

Massalia (Marseille), Roman empire

Died

January 21, 0065

Genre

Humor and Comedy, Classics

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People credit Roman courtier Gaius Petronius, known as Petronius Arbiter, with writing the Satyricon .

People generally think that he during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar, which began in 54, authored this satirical novel.

Alternative spellings for Petronius:

Brazilian Portuguese: 笔别迟谤么苍颈辞
French: 笔茅迟谤辞苍别
Spanish: Petronio
Greek: 螤蔚蟿蚁蠋谓喂慰蟼

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Average rating: 3.78 · 12,619 ratings · 913 reviews · 278 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Satyricon by Petronius, Piero Chiara (Translator), P.G. Walsh (Translator), Federico Roncoroni (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 9,332 ratings — published 60 — 877 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius, Seneca, J.P. Sullivan (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 1,536 ratings — published 66 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trimalchio's Feast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #21) by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan (Translator) 3.24 avg rating — 819 ratings — published 66 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyricon and the Fragments by Petronius, J.P. Sullivan 3.90 avg rating — 60 ratings — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections From The Satyricon by Petronius, Leon Danilovics (Illustrator), Gilbert Lawall 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow of Ephesus 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon Reliquiae by Petronius, Konrad M眉ller (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World's Oldest Short Stories: Tales from Ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Rome by Petronius, Apuleius, Theocritus 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uczta Trymalchiona by Petronius, Petroniusz, Leopold Staff (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satyricon 鈥� Volume 05: Crotona Affairs 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Petronius (?)

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

tags: ancient, humour, irony, latin, nonsense, satyre, stupidity, text, the-satyricon, trimalchio

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“We trained hard鈥攂ut it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
― Petronius Arbiter

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“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

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February 2025 Old School Classics Poll

Meditation by Franz Kafka, 1912, 80 pp

58 votes, 32.4%

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 1913, 159 pp

38 votes, 21.2%

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 1908, 182 pp

30 votes, 16.8%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900, 455 pp

27 votes, 15.1%

The Satyricon by Petronius, 60, 272 pp

13 votes, 7.3%

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pp

13 votes, 7.3%

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