Download or read book Theatrum Arbitri written by Costas Panayotakis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama on the surviving fragments of Petronius' "Satyrica." Aspects of plot-construction, characterization, language, and structure are analysed theatrically in each episode of the surviving text.