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Agenda. Recap & Update From Juvenal to Petronius The World of the Satyricon Morality and Society Under Nero Petronius 1 Immoral Morality Discussion What Would Petronius Think?. Recap & Update. From Juvenal to Petronius. Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid”.

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  1. Agenda • Recap & Update • From Juvenal to Petronius • The World of the Satyricon • Morality and Society Under Nero • Petronius 1 • Immoral Morality • Discussion • What Would Petronius Think? Petronius

  2. Recap & Update From Juvenal to Petronius

  3. Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid” Holt Parker. “The Teratogenic Grid.” Roman Sexualities. Eds. Judith P. Hallett, and Marilyn B. Skinner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 47–65. Print.

  4. Impure Mouths, Words in Petronius

  5. Masculinity in Petronius? (Phileros on old Chrysanthus) “And you know how old he was when he died? Seventy and then some. But carried it beautifully, hard as nails (corneolus) … he was horny (salax), right to the end. By god, I’ll bet he even pestered the dog. Boys were what he really liked (pullariuserat), but he wasn’t choosy: he’d jump anything with legs.” (pp. 51–52)

  6. Rome and the Monstrous Barton, Carlin A. The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. A gladiator fights his own phallus.(1st-cent. CE Wind-chime from Pompeii)

  7. Matrimonial Ideology • Maritalis affectio, adfectio coniugalis • Univira • Reverentia, obsequium • Concordia, consortium, societas Treggiari, Susan. Roman Marriage: IustiConiuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. Petronius

  8. Sexual-Social Ideology/Law • Lex scantinia (149 BCE) • Augustan marriage legislation • Lex iulia et papia (18 BCE, 9 CE) • Lex iulia de adulteriiscoercendis (9CE) McGinn, Thomas A. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print. Petronius

  9. Juvenal: Structure, Theme 2 Hypocritical moralists 6 Misogyny gone wild Pudicitia’s loss Matrimonial folly Gallery of women Impure maids Lust for infamia Imperial prostitute Imperious wives Adulterous wives etc. etc. • Philosophers • Cinaedic cinaedus-bashers • Imperial reformer • Pathic lawyer • Lex iulia et papia • Roman contagion Petronius

  10. The World of the Satyricon Morality and Society Under Nero

  11. Petronius and Nero • Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar) • r. 54-68 • Philhellene • artiste • Petronius • arbiter elegantiae(overseer of entertainments) • suicide, 65 CE • Satyricon (episodic novel) Nero Petronius

  12. Naples Puteoli Croton Pompeii

  13. Terentius Neo and Wife, Archaeological Museum, Naples

  14. Cave canem, “Beware of the dog!” - Pompeii

  15. House of the Vettii Peristyle Garden Large Dining Room (triclinium)

  16. House of the Vettii, Pompeii Large Dining Room(triclinium) Peristyle Garden(Priapus) Peristyle Garden Atrium Vestibule(Priapus)

  17. Priapus, House of the Vettii. What do you see?

  18. Petronius 1 Immoral Morality

  19. Satyricon: Theme and Layout • Three “fratres” (brothers) • Encolpius • Ascyltus • Giton • Priapic bipolarity • excess • Trimalchio’s feast • depletion • Quartilla’s orgy • Encolpius’ impotence • Artistic decadence? Priapus Petronius

  20. Lost text Encolpius & … Lycurgus (?) Encolpius gladiator kills Lycurgus lanista Lichas (Enc’s affair w/ wife) Tryphaena (theft of Giton) “Brothers” & Quartilla offense vs. Priapus Preserved text “Bros.’ ” Oratory, escapades about town Reunion w/ Quartilla Priapic offense atoned for? Dinner w/ Trimalchio Preserved text (cont.) Eumolpus & “bros.” Pergamene boy Shipboard reunion w/ Lichas, Tryphaena widow of Ephesus theft of Isis’ gear shipwreck Con in Croton Encolpius’ impotence w/ Circe w/ Oenothea Philomela lena Eumolpus’ will Satyricon: Plot Outline

  21. Discussion What Would Petronius Think?

  22. The Author’s Complaint… “Then why … must every nagging prude … denounce my work as lewd? … I write of every human act / admitted to be true. … Let prudes … heed … Epicurus …, that … pleasure is the goal of all….” (pp. 151-152)

  23. Discussion Petronius

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