The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero’s Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius; it’s most amorous and elegant courtier.

William Arrowsmith’s pungent translation – the first edition to be widely available to the general reader in a lively, modern, unexpurgated text – recaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius picaresque satire. The hilarious story of the pleasure seeking, fortune, hunting adventure of an educated rogue, it turns every weakness of the flesh,  every foible of the mind, to laughter.