3.7 TRIMALCHIO Flashcards
Excessive wine quote
‘more wine poured under the table then most men would have in their cellars’
Trimalchio’s excessive food
- ‘syrian plums’
- ‘Attic honey’ from bees he brought from Attica
- ‘doormice’ - delicacy
What is vulgur about Trimalchio’s excessive food
There is so much that it looses it’s meaning
Wealth of Trimalchio communicated through what he owns
- ‘silver toothpick’
- ‘cushions are scarlett or purple, even the stuffing
- Weight of silver on dinner plates
- Slaves have slaves as masters
- Gold and silver coins, no white and black for what he owns
Trimalchio’s vulgarity
- Gutting of pig scene and the excess of what comes out
- All slaves singing
- Pastry around chicken embryo
- Slave making them enter right foot first
Who is flawed narrator in Trimalchio’s story
Encolpious
Where is Rome is Trimalchio’s dinner party
Bay of Naples
What are the paintings by the entrance to Trimalchio’s house
Scenes from his career, Iliad and Odyssey
Who is Trimalchio
A freedman
Who is Trimalchio
A freedman
How is Trimalchio’s rudeness shown before dinner
He rudely announces he needs to finish the game that he is playing
Who is Fortunanta
Trimalchio’s wife - ex slave girl and prostitute
How is Trimalchio’s lack of education highlighted
He talks about Troy being captured by Hannibal, but the Trojan war happened over 1000 years before Hannibal’s fight with the Romans
