Quartilla

Quartilla is a character in the Satyricon which is said to be the "first picaresque" novel in Latin although it is not completely extant. This story was written by Petronius Arbiter in the first century. Quartilla is a follower of the god Priapus and she and her maids are involved with seducing and torturing three of the characters, Encolpius, Ascyltum, and Giton.

She has been the subject of artistic and academic study. It has been proposed that she represents Octavia and her name is a pun like reference for the reader.

References

1 2 "The Satyricon" (Illustrated ed.). Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
↑ Grube, G.M.A. (1995). The Greek and Roman Critics. Hackett Publishing. p. 261. ISBN 0-87220-310-7.
↑ Gill, Christopher (1973). "The sexual episodes in the Satyricon". Classical Philology. 68 (3): 172–185. doi:10.1086/365975. JSTOR 267748. S2CID 161220171.
↑ Panayotakis, Costas (1994). "Quartilla's histrionics in Petronius Satyrica 16.1-26.6". Mnemosyne. 4a. 47 (3): 319–336. doi:10.1163/156852594X00023. JSTOR 4432375.
↑ The Roman Novel. CUP Archive. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1-00-134053-1.

Bibliography

Habash, Martha (2006). "Petronius' Satyrica 24.7: Quartilla's Asellus". Ancient Narrative. 5: 24–30.

External links

Quinn, Dennis P. (1997). "Quartilla's Cure". AresPress.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

[art-1] 1 2 "The Satyricon" (Illustrated ed.). Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

[Grube1995-2] Grube, G.M.A. (1995). The Greek and Roman Critics. Hackett Publishing. p. 261. ISBN 0-87220-310-7.

[3] Gill, Christopher (1973). "The sexual episodes in the Satyricon". Classical Philology. 68 (3): 172–185. doi:10.1086/365975. JSTOR 267748. S2CID 161220171.

[iii-4] Panayotakis, Costas (1994). "Quartilla's histrionics in Petronius Satyrica 16.1-26.6". Mnemosyne. 4a. 47 (3): 319–336. doi:10.1163/156852594X00023. JSTOR 4432375.

[5] The Roman Novel. CUP Archive. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1-00-134053-1.