The novel focuses on the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away others. Written Petronius, Audiobook narrated Nicholas Boulton. Sign-in to download and listen to this audiobook today! First time visiting Audible? Get this book free when you sign up for a 30-day Trial. The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre, and recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literature scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean. : Gaius Petronius Arbiter. Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. Satyricon is a frustratingly, tantalizingly incomplete Roman novel. Its manuscript is dreadfully messy and incomplete, to the point that it is difficult to see where the lacunae are (and why I have avoided mentioning them). It is the archetypal Menippean satire, full of imagery of the bawdy, ungraceful lower classes of Rome. The Satyricon Petronius. The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy, The book