Editing Satyricon (section)

===Film===
In 1969 two film versions were made. ''[[Fellini Satyricon]]'', directed by [[Federico Fellini]], was loosely based upon the book. The film is deliberately fragmented and [[surrealism|surreal]] though the androgynous Giton (Max Born) gives the graphic picture of Petronius's character. Among the chief narrative changes Fellini makes to the ''Satyricon'' text is the addition of a hermaphroditic priestess, who does not exist in the Petronian version.

In Fellini's adaptation, the fact that Ascyltos abducts this hermaphrodite, who later dies a miserable death in a desert landscape, is posed as an ill-omened event, and leads to the death of Ascyltos later in the film (none of which is to be found in the Petronian version). Other additions Fellini makes in his filmic adaptation: the appearance of a minotaur in a labyrinth (who first tries to club Encolpius to death, and then attempts to kiss him), and the appearance of a nymphomaniac whose husband hires Ascyltos to enter her caravan and have sex with her.

The other movie, ''[[Satyricon (1969 Polidoro film)|Satyricon]]'', was directed by [[Gian Luigi Polidoro]].