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Löbcke, Konrad: Sexual Rivalry in Petronius’ Satyrica: A Study on Comic Elements and Narrative Technique, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1447

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11/27/2024

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Konrad Löbcke

Sexual Rivalry in Petronius’ Satyrica

A Study on Comic Elements and Narrative Technique

If Petronius’ Satyrica were published today, we would advise our children not to read it. Speaking in 21st-century terms, the book is a manifesto of toxic masculinity. Men in positions of power treat others as mere sex objects, viewing as trifles incidents of sexual denigration, exploitation, and violence. Still, if we put the Satyrica in its proper literary and socio-historical context, the text helps tease out the contradictions of the past and the present.

Konrad Löbcke studied Latin philology and English/American studies at the universities of Rostock and Manchester. He wrote his PhD thesis at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, with a research stay at the university of Glasgow. Beyond Petronius and ancient comedy, he has worked on Neo-Latin epic and the late antique author Cassiodorus.

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Table of Contents
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
11-12
Foreword
Reading the Satyrica in the 21st century
13-19
I Introduction
Theatricality and narrative structure in the Satyrica
21-56
II Overall aspects
Sexuality in the Satyrica, the ‘Idealising’ novel and the comic tradition
57-79
III First rivalry over Giton
Encolpius versus Ascyltus (§§ 9–11)
81-177
IV Reconciliation
Encolpius and Giton (§ 91)
179-225
V Third rivalry over Giton
Encolpius versus Eumolpus (§§ 92–96)
227-286
VI Synopsis and conclusion
287-302
VII Final remarks
The sex life of Petronius’ characters
303-306
Bibliography
307-335
Passages cited
337-343

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