This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.

Introduction, Critical Text, and Translation with Cultural Notes by Wade Richardson

Introduction: Petronius the (Comic) Novelist

1. The Author and His Date and His Work

2. The Manuscript Transmission and the Making of LOH and the Text

3. The Register of Shared or Singular Text Content in the LOH Classes

4. The Plot and the Characterization

5. The Sex: via Libido and Libidinosus, Showing Speaker and Gender Target

6. The Freedmen and Their Table Talk and Trimalchio

7. The Latin and the Translation

8. The Stemmata and the Sigla of the Manuscripts and Earliest Editions

9. The Sigla of the Manuscripts and Editions for the Apparatus Criticus

10. The List of Scholars Cited in the Apparatus Criticus

Petronii: The Latin Text and Apparatus

Satyrica: The English Translation with Footnotes

Annex: Argued Emendations Adopted in the Text, with Directory

Aggregate Bibliography

Index