Introduction to Latin Literature

Petronius: Select Bibliography

Petronius: Introductory Works

• Hagg, Tomas. The Novel in Antiquity. Blackwell. 1983.
• Luce, T. James, ed. 1982. Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner.
• Walsh, P. G. The Roman Novel. Cambridge 1970.

Roman Food and Culture

• Dalby, Andrew, and Sally Grainger. The Classical Cookbook. British Museum 2000.
• Donahue, John F. "The Roman Feast: An Overview." In The Roman Community at Table During the Principate. Michigan 2004. 14-42.
• Dunbabbin, Katherine. The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality. Cambridge 2003, esp. chs 1-2.
• Faas, Patrick, and Shaun Whiteside. Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. Chicago 2005.
• Grimm, Veronika. "On Food and the Body." In D. Potter, ed. Companion to the Roman Empire. Blackwell 2006. 596-623.
• Sebesta Judith, Lynn & Bonfante, eds. 1994. The World of Roman Costume. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Slater, William J., ed. Dining in a Classical Context. Michigan 1991.

Petronius' Satyricon *

• Courtney, Edward. A Companion to Petronius. Oxford 2001.
• Hallett, Judith P. "Resistant (and Enabling) Reading: Petronius' Satyricon and Latin Love Elegy." In S. Panayotakis, et al., eds. The Ancient Novel and Beyond. Brill 2003. 329-44.
• Harrison, S. J., ed. Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel. Oxford 1999.
• Prag, Jonathan, and Ian Repath, eds. Petronius: A Handbook. Blackwell 2006.
• Rimell, Victoria. Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction. Cambridge 2002.
• Slater, Niall. Reading Petronius. Johns Hopkins 1990.

Further Research *

• Ancient Narrative is a journal that focuses on Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions, including novels proper, the "fringe", as well as the fragments; narrative texts of the Byzantine age, early Christian narrative texts - and the reception of these works in modern literature, film and music.
• TOCS-IN, Tables of Contents of journals in Classics. Type in the topic or author you are searching for