"Satyricon"
- Artist/Author/Producer: Pretonius, Gaius (d.c. A.D. 66)
- Confronting Bodies: City of Westminster in London
- Dates of action: 1934
- Location: London, England
- Description of the Art Work
- "Satyricon": Comic, picaresque romance that relates the wanderings and
escapades of a disreputable trio of adventurers. Surviving portions
probably represent about one tenth of the complete work. The longest and
best episode of the "Satyricon" is the one so-called Cena Trimalchionis,
a description of a dinner party given by Trimalchionis that is
distinguished by two features: extraordinary realism and the figure of
Trimalchionis.
- Description of incident
- 1934 England-London : This comic satire on Roman life in the time of
Nero, under whom Petronius served as a consul and "arbiter" of the public
entertainment, survives as a fragment. According to one authority
(Donald Thomas, "A Long Time Burning"), the first English translation to
get in trouble was a modern one.
- Results of incident
- 1934 England-London : The book was ordered destroyed by the police court
of the City of Westminster.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
