Audiobook The Satyricon — Complete

The narrative follows Encolpius, his fickle younger companion Giton, and their shifting circle of associates through a series of absurd and often scandalous misadventures across the Roman world. After fleeing a brothel and surviving various entanglements with jealous lovers and corrupt officials, the group attends the legendary, excessively vulgar dinner party hosted by the wealthy freedman Trimalchio. There, amid mountains of bizarre food and ostentatious displays of newfound wealth, the guests indulge in gossip, ghost stories, and coarse philosophy, laying bare the profound spiritual emptiness behind their material abundance. Later, separated from their treacherous companion Ascyltos, Encolpius and Giton endure shipwreck, romantic betrayals, and harrowing reconciliations while traveling with the impoverished poet Eumolpus. Ultimately, the trio arrives in the decaying city of Crotona, where Eumolpus hatches a cynical scheme to masquerade as a wealthy, childless aristocrat. By exploiting the local obsession with inheriting fortunes from the childless, the adventurers immerse themselves in a web of flattery and deception, continually testing the fragile boundaries between their false personas and their destitute reality as they seek security in a corrupt world.