Feast Of Trimalchio Western Civilization Term Paper

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We noticed besides four figures of Marsyas, one at each corner of the tray, spouting out peppered fish-sauce over the fishes swimming in the Channel of the dish..." Cooks, servers, musicians, acrobats, butlers, maids, young men, and young women - all of whom he had complete control over their fate. For example, the readings mention the extent of Trimalchio's power when a slave makes careless mistakes in his work. Trimalchio tells him to "strip" and go and "take his own life." At which point the slave begs for mercy.

Towards the end of the feast, a guest recaps everything served. "For the first course we had a pig topped with a black-pudding and garnished with fritters and giblets, capitally dressed, and beetroot of course, and whole-meal brown bread. The next...

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As accessories, were chick-peas and lupines, nuts at discretion, and an apple apiece. To end up with, we had cream cheese flavored with wine jelly, snails, one apiece, chitterlings, scalloped liver and chaperoned eggs, turnips, mustard and (by your leave), Palamedes!"
The last indication of Trimalchio's wealth and social status is revealed by the amount of property he owns. "As for me, I've eaten up my duds, and if the scarcity goes on, I shall sell my bits of houses. What is to become of us, if neither gods nor men take pity on this unhappy city?"

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Allinson, a. (Copyright 1930). The Satyricon from the Latin of Petronius. New York, NY: The Panurge Press.


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