Prag Jonathan R W(editor) - Petronius : a Handbook

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Petronius : a handbook / edited by Jonathan Prag and Ian Repath.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-1-4051-5687-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-118-45137-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Petronius ArbiterCriticism and interpretation. 2. Satire, LatinHistory and criticism.
I. Prag, J. R. W. II. Repath, Ian.
PA6561.P37 2009
873.01dc22

2008028318

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Cover image: Eleanor Antin, The Death of Petronius from The Last Days of Pompeii, 2001, chromogenic print, 469/16 941/2 13/4 inches (framed). Copyright Eleanor Antin.
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Cover design by Richard Boxall Design Associates

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Jean Andreau is Directeur dtudes at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He specializes in the economic and social history of the Roman world. In 1999 he published Banking and Business in the Roman World (Cambridge). His most recent book is J. Andreau and V. Chankowski (eds), Vocabulaire et expression de lconomie dans le monde antique (Bordeaux 2007). He is currently working on a history of the Roman economy and collaborates, along with Jonathan Prag, in a group directed by Sylvie Pittia which is preparing a new edition and commentary of Ciceros third speech against Verres (the De frumento).
Shelley Hales is Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture at the University of Bristol and specializes in the roles and meanings of Roman domestic art and architecture. She is the author of Roman Houses and Social Identity (Cambridge 2003). She is currently working on the reception of Pompeii in nineteenth-century culture.
Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford. He has written widely on the Roman novels and was a co-founder of the journal Ancient Narrative ( www.ancientnarrative.com ). He is editor of Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford 1999) and author of Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (Oxford 2000).
Valerie Hope is Senior lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University. Her main research interest is Roman funerary monuments and funeral customs. Publications include Death and Disease in the Ancient City (London and New York 2000, co-edited with E. Marshall); Constructing Identity: The Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nimes (Oxford 2001); and Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (London 2007).
J. R. Morgan is Professor of Greek at Swansea University. He has published widely on ancient fiction, particularly the Greek novel. His commentary on Longuss Daphnis and Chloe was published in 2004 (Warminster). He is co-editor, with Meriel Jones, of Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 10, Groningen 2007), and, with Ian Repath, of another forthcoming Ancient Narrative Supplementum on lies and metafiction. Other projects include an edition of Heliodorus for the Loeb Classical Library, and a monograph on Longus for the Duckworth Classical Literature and Society series. He is Leader of the KYKNOS Research Centre, which brings together colleagues working on the narrative literatures of the ancient world at Swansea and Lampeter ( www.kyknos.org.uk ).