Description: "One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently a bewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream of ancient satire, it is also something recognizably apart and utterly original; visibly a novel, it is yet somehow not a novel at all ..."--P. v.
Review Quotes: "This version by a translator who understands the high art of low humor is conspicuously funny."
--Time
"William Arrowsmith's translation of The Satyricon meets the two fundamental requirements of the translator's art: perfect fidelity to the original and a vitality of style that tempts the reader to believe that the English version is not a translation.... A classic of literature."
--Allen Tate
"Arrowsmith's brilliant translation ... at one stroke renders every other version obsolete."
--London Times Literary Supplement