Petronius Arbiter’s Satyricon is the most vivid surviving fragment of Roman prose fiction — a picaresque romp through the disreputable underside of first-century Roman society. Volume 5 covers the Crotona episodes, in which the anti-hero Encolpius and his companions arrive in a city ruled by legacy-hunters and encounter a cast of marvellously corrupt characters.
Sharp, irreverent, and often hilarious, the Satyricon reads less like an ancient text than a modern satirical novel. This free EPUB presents the Crotona section in a clean, readable format ready for any device.