The Date and Author of the Satyricon: With an Introduction by J.p. Sullivan (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 16)

THE DATE AND AUTHOR OF THE SATYRICON 3 CONTENTS 7 Introduction 9 Abbreviations 13 I. The Petronian Question and the Neronian Date 15 1. Preliminary Considerations 15 2. Some Modem Suggestions 22 3. Objections to the First Century Dating 23 4. Internal Evidence for the N eronian Date 34 5. Names in the Satyricon 35 6. Imperial Events and Personages 38 7. Daily Life and Antiquities 41 8. Society in the Satyricon 44 9. The Legal Background of the Satyricon 47 II. The Identity of Petronius 52 1. Is Petronius Arbiter Nero's Arbiter? 52 2. Objections to the Identification 57 3. Petronius' praenomen and cognomen 61 4. Petronius' Career 69 III. Petronius and his Literary Contemporaries 74 1. Petronius and Lucan 74 2. Petronius and Seneca 83 IV. Petronius and Neronian Society 89 1. Allusions to Events of 60-65 A.D 89 2. Allusions to the Emperor 91 3. Other Imperial and Contemporary References 93 Appendix A: Alleged Allusions to Nero in the Satyricon 96 Appendix B: Petronius' Adaptations of Lucan 101 Bibliography 109 Indexes 116