Word: satyricon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern of all writers of antiquity," compares him favorably with Anatole France, Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken. Though D. H. Lawrence "gives him the pip" in practical matters, on the whole he approves...
Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...