Word: petronius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaiety, originality, raw talent and rebellious exuberance. And there is more to come. Britain's Durrell, 56, who is currently visiting the U.S. for the first time, is already at work on a sequel, to be titled Numquam. "The whole is based on a passage from Petronius," he explains, "which talks about now or never, nunc ant numquam. In the old days, the passage says, the women would mess themselves up and go on top of the mountain and pray for rain, and believe in it, and say, 'Now or Never,' and the rain would come...
Arrowsmith's colleagues charge that he is himself a living refutation of his own theories. A topflight scholar who has translated Euripides, Petronius and Aristophanes, he also co-edits a classical quarterly called Arion, and is editing books of Greek comedies and of Nietzsche's writings. None of his students find that this work has made Bill Arrowsmith either inhumane or dull...
...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...
...Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers, Arrowsmith's version of Aristophanes' rollicking Knights' Prologue made the first issue worth its price ($1.50). Editor W. Robert Jones of the staider Classical Journal calls Arion "most provident in peril, courage and hope...
...outflanking civil disobedience. This year both Henry Miller's hot-panting Tropic of Cancer and D. H. Lawrence's lukewarm Lady Chatterley's Lover are sold openly in the U.S. But what is no longer forbidden loses half its charm. For the first time since Petronius wrote his Satyricon to titillate Nero, were the printers of the unprintable in danger of insolvency...