Class Reports:
 

• 1) Auerbach, E., Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton 1953) (pp. 24-49 [esp. 24-33] = ch. 2, "Fortunata," on P., Tacitus, and a Gospel narrative) T Feb. 15:  ___________ (Read the whole chapter, but only devote one sentence each to the Tacitus and Gospel parts; spend most time on the first 10 pp.)
• 2) Bacon, Helen, "The Sibyl in the Bottle," Virginia Quarterly Review 34 (1958) 262-76 Th Feb. 17:  ___________
• 3) History of the Text of P.: Read section in Sage and Gilleland intro, section in Penguin intro., and M. Reeve, "Petronius," in Texts and Transmissions (Oxford 1983) ___________, T Feb 22
• 4) D'Arms, John H., “The Typicality of Trimalchio,” pp. 97-120 in Commerce and Social Stranding in Ancient Rome (Cambridge MA and London 1981) ___________, Th Feb 24 (historian’s topic)
• 5) Slater, Niall, "'Against Interpretation': Petronius and Art Criticism," Ramus 16 (1987) 165-76 (look also at part of the book)  ___________, T Feb 29
• 6) Love in the Greek Novel & Petronius: “Introduction” (pp. 1-13)  and pp. 113-25 (on P.) of David Konstan,Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (Princeton 1994) Th March 2
• 7) A Greek Satyricon: Read Iolaus in Reardon 816-18 and look at R. Astbury, "Petronius, P. Oxy. 3010, and Menippean Satire," CP 72 (1977) 22-31, and P. Parsons, "A Greek Satyricon?" BICS 18 (1971) 53-68 and plate 7 _________, T March 7
• 8) Beck, Roger, "The Satyricon: Satire, Narrator, and Antecedents," MH 39 (1982) 206-14, and F. Jones, "The Narrator and the Narrative of the Satyricon," Latomus 46 (1987) 810-19 ___________ TH March 9