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petroNIus
d. a.d. 66, Roman
seNeca
c. 4 b.c. – a.d. 65, Roman
The Satyricon/The Apocolocyntosis
of the Divine Claudius
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by J. P. Sullivan
In The Satyricon, the racy adventures of
the impotent Encolpius and his friends
and lovers provide the definitive portrait
of the age of Nero. The Apocolocyntosis
is a malicious skit on the “deification of
Claudius the Clod,” designed by Seneca
to ingratiate himself with Claudius’s
successor, Nero.
256 pp. 978-0-14-044489-6 $11.95
See Lucius Annaeus Seneca and
The Portable Roman Reader.
luIGI pIraNdello
1867 – 1936, italian
nobel prize winner
Six Characters in Search of an
Author and Other Plays
Translated by Mark Musa
Inverting the conventions of theater
and “real” life, Pirandello suggested that
people are simply characters acting out
the drama of their lives, for which theater
provides an absurd, yet strangely logical,
mirror. Besides Six Characters in Search
of an Author, his best-known work, this
volume also includes Henry IV and So It Is
(If You Think So).
224 pp. 978-0-14-018922-3 $13.00
chrIstINe de pIzaN
1364 – c. 1430, French (b. Venice)
The Book of the City of Ladies
Translated with an Introduction by
Rosalind Brown-Grant
In this sequel to The Treasure of the City
of Ladies, Christine, with the help of
Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, constructs
an allegorical city in which to defend
womankind and confront the misogyny of
fourteenth-century Europe.
336 pp. 978-0-14-044689-0 $12.95
The Treasure of the City of the Ladies
Or, The Book of Three Virtues
Translated with an Introduction by
Sarah Lawson
A valuable counterbalance to chronicles
of medieval life written by men, this
1405 “survival manual” addresses all
women, from those at the royal court to
prostitutes, and portrays their lives in fine
and often wry detail.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044950-1 $13.00
See The Portable Medieval Reader.
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