Sklaverei über alles

PETRONIUS — J.P. SULLIVAN — THE SATYRICON — 1965–1986

Despite what the translator says in his notes that we are supposed to take many episodes and details with a grain of salt, we are in Rome and the Roman Empire under Emperor Nero, and I may consider that the grain of salt is maybe only a way to smoothen the horror of some descriptions or allusions. This is quite clearly a depiction of this…