Morgan Crouch
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Wilde and Petronius: The "Satyricon" as a Template for "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: It is no secret that the prominent aesthete Oscar Wilde was familiar with the work of Petronius of Rome. In fact, it's so far from a surreptitious topic that it remains undecided whether Wilde can be held responsible for a translation of Petronius's The Satyricon. His familiarity becomes quite apparent as well when we see Petronius's text specifically referenced within Wilde's work, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde's texts were often thought to hav...