The Satyricon is a work of the Ancient Greek literature whose author names himself Petronius (or Gaius Petronius Arbiter) in all the manuscripts.Beginning from XVII century, the works are usually referred to novels; more ancient novels were not preserved. The time when it was written cannot be definitely ascertained, but most likely it was the 1st century AD, Nero's era.The novel consists of many different scenes that show, lively and with a great talent, amusing and rather vulgar adventures. Obviously, the novel used to be huge; the fragments, which came to our days, make a book of a modern size. Survived fragments appear to be a number of scenes without a strict connection, often without a beginning or an end, with a rather bright content. They are connected by adventures of the three unserious friends from the freedmen class.