Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-226) and indexes
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Corporealities; CHAPTER 1 Rhetorical red herrings; CHAPTER 2 Behind the scenes; CHAPTER 3 The beast within; CHAPTER 4 From the horse's mouth; CHAPTER 5 Bella intestina; CHAPTER 6 Regurgitating Polyphemus; CHAPTER 7 Scars of knowledge; CHAPTER 8 How to eat Virgil; CHAPTER 9 Ghost stories; CHAPTER 10 Decomposing rhythms; Conclusion Licence and labyrinths; APPENDIX 1 The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon; APPENDIX II The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon
Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon, corporeality is here for the first time explored as a metaphor and it is argued that, on the level of imagery, the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble