LATN 3323 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pozzuoli, Antihero
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The cena is one incidence from a long novel called satyricon, which centers around the adventures of the anti-hero narrator, encolpius, a drifter who wanders from place to place with no visible means of support. Wanderings began at marseilles, from which he was exiled. Book begins in puteoli, a popular resort. Agamemnon overhears their conversation and invites them to the dinner party of millionaire trimalchio. Unique piece of literature in ancient contexts. Ridicule the follies and vices on mankind, but without a dominantly satirical voice. Ancestor of a well-known type of novel.
