Satyricon!

Each 201 student must sign up (on Wednesday, September 13) for 4 (four) reports.
Your report should take no longer than 5 minutes to deliver (normally, 2 pages of double-spaced, type written text takes about 5 minutes to deliver). You do not have to write out your report, unless you want to (I always read from a written text because I get less nervous).
You must hand in a one-page outline of your report.
The articles you report on are considered by classicists to be the among the most important contributions to Petronian scholarship of the last century. Your job is a) to summarize the argument of each article; b) to explain the author's analytical and interpetive premises; c) to explain why you agree or disagree with the author's analysis and argument. If a report assignment lists two articles, be sure to explain the interpretive disagreements (if any, between the authors). I will be mightly impressed if you also consider previous article and seminar reports we have heard in class in your analysis.
You should feel free to come visit me in office hours to talk about your reports before you give them.
Articles marked "[ER]" are on electronic reserve for this course. You may down load these articles with Adobe Acrobat. Other articles and chapters will require you to walk to Ladd and request the reserve [2 hour] copy.

Week 3:

Auerbach, Erich. 1953. Mimesis. tr. W. R. Trask. Princeton [the Petronius chapter].
Zeitlin, Fromma. 1971. "Petronius as Paradox: Anarchy and Artistic Integrity." TAPA 102: 631-84. [ER]

Week 4:

Cameron, A. M. 1970. "Myth and Meaning in Petronius." Latomus 29: 397-425. [ER]
Highet, Gilbert. 1941. "Petronius the Moralist." TAPA 72: 176-94.

Week 5:

Kennedy, George. 1978. "Encolpius and Agamemnon in Petronius." AJP 99: 171-78 [ER] and Wooten, Cecil. 1976. "Petronius, the Mime, and Rhetorical Education." Helios, n.s. 3: 67-74
Arrowsmith, William. 1966. "Luxury and Death in the Satyricon." Arion 5: 304-31. [ER]

Week 6:

Baldwin, Barry. 1987. "Hannibal at Troy: The Sources of Trimalchio's Confusion." PSN 17:6 (et seq.) [ER] and
- Starr, R. J.
  - 1987. "Trimalchio's Homeristae." Latomus 46: 199-200 [ER]
  - 1987. "Trimalchio's Libraries." Hermes 115:252-53 [ER]
Slater, N. 1986. "Satyricon 60.7: Which Augustus?" LCM 11.3- 43 [ER]

Week 8:

Hubbard, T. K. 1986. "The Narrative Architecture of Petronius'Satyricon." AC 55: 190-212 [ER] and Rose, K. F. C. 1962. "Time and Place in the Satyricon." TAPA 93:402-9. [ER]
Beck, R. "Some Observations on the Narrative Technique of Petronius," in ed., S. J. Harrison, Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999) 50-73.
Petersmann, H., "Environment, Linguistic Situation, and Levels of Style in Petronius' Satyrica," in ed., S. J. Harrison, Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999) 105-123.

Week 9:

Rosati, G., "Trimalchio on Stage," in ed., S. J. Harrison, Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999) 85-104.
Gill, Christopher. 1973. "The Sexual Episodes in the Satyricon." CP 68: 172-85 [ER] and Wooten, Cecil. 1984. "Petronius and 'Camp." Helios n.s., 11:133-39.

Week 10:

Courtney, E. 1987. "Petronius and the Underworld." AJP 108: 408-10 [ER] and Saylor, Charles. 1987. "Funeral Games: The Significance of Games in the Cena Trimalchionis." Latomus 46: 593-602. [ER]
Rose, K. F. C. 1966. "The Petronian Inquisition: An Auto-da-fé." Arion 5: 275-301.

Week 11:

Abbot, Frank Frost. 1907. "The Use of Language as a Means of Characterization in Petronius." CP 2: 43-50. [ER]
Slater, Niall W. 1987. "Against Interpretation: Petronius and Art Criticism." Ramus 16: 165-76. [ER]
George, Peter. 1966. "Style and Character in the Satyricon." Arion 5: 336-58 and Sochotoff, A. Fred. 1970. "Imagery in the Poems of the Satyricon." CJ 65:340-44.

Week 13:

Zeitlin, Fromma. 1971. "Romanus Petronius: A Study of the Trojae Halosis and the Bellum Civile." Latomus 30: 56-82.
George, Peter. 1974. "Petronius and Lucan de bello civili." CQ 24: 119-33.