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Back to EpisodesAn After-Dinner Reading: Decadent Dining in the Satyricon
Episode 99
Published 3 years, 3 months ago
Description
This short off-format episode is intended as a sort of fireside reading to be enjoyed by our overfull American listeners as they struggle to digest their Thanksgiving dinners. It’s from the late 1st-century novel, Satyricon by Petronius and describes what is quite likely Western literature’s most decadent description of a feast.
