Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2017. № 12. Part 3. P. 120-123.
EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE NOVELS "SATYRICON" AND "THE GOLDEN ASS"
Malik Yurii Sergeevich
Voronezh State University
Abstract. The article analyzes the world perception of the late Roman Empire by the example of the key novels of the I and II centuries A.D. - "Satyricon" by Petronius Arbiter and "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius - which intuitively anticipate the decay of Antiquity in the broad sense of the word. The paper provides the comparative characteristic of the Empire’s everyday life as it is presented by Petronius and Roman lifestyle in Apuleius’s novel. In "Satyricon" the Empire’s life is full of growing skepticism replaced with absurdism. In "Metamorphoses" the Empire’s image is dialectical: it is divided into profane and sacral.
Key words and phrases: общественное сознание, Pax Romana, "Сатирикон", мистицизм, скептицизм, public consciousness, Pax Romana, "Satyricon", mysticism, skepticism
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