The Satycia is one of the most original and engaing works to survive from classical antiquity. Whether read as a parody of classical romance, pagan pornography of a gay classics, Petronius' comic masterpiece follows the Priapic adventures of Encolpius and his beautiful lover, Giton. 'contemporary, crisp and sure...(Satyrica) deserves to be read as a racy ancient novel - and now it can be' Peter Stothard, The Times. 'This new reading stands to replace and surpass the excellent versions of Aerosmith and Sullivan...Branham and Kinney have given fin de siecle readers a Petronius for their own age, as lively and urbane as ever, and more fully nuanced and explicated than herefore... this is a rendition destined - and worthy - to be read by many' John Bodel, Clasiical Outlook.