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Agenda. Discussion 1 What Would Petronius Think? Recap & Update Petronian Background, Petronian Foreground Discussion: What is the Moral? The Widow of Ephesus, The Pergamene Boy. Discussion 1. What Would Petronius Think?. The Author’s Complaint….

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  1. Agenda • Discussion 1 • What Would Petronius Think? • Recap & Update • Petronian Background, Petronian Foreground • Discussion: What is the Moral? • The Widow of Ephesus, The Pergamene Boy Petronius

  2. Discussion 1 What Would Petronius Think?

  3. 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)

  4. fight over giton not ok for finnis b/c of stable marriage thing not sure if the misogyny thing finnis-like… petron not supportive of either finnis: v decandence petron more toward finnis speech about cinaedi but,… encolpius counters f enc as virtuous, ascyltus as non-virtuous petron mocks a lot of what he talks about mocking exaggeration point of agreement\ the mocking is similar to nuss mos-maiorum moralizing (absolutist) nuss has a similar system to the satiric voice as satire makes fun of finnis ideas Discussion Petronius

  5. Recap & Update Petronian Background, Petronian Foreground

  6. 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.

  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. 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

  10. Naples Puteoli Croton Pompeii

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Discussion: What is the Moral? The Widow of Ephesus, The Pergamene Boy

  14. Widow of Ephesus teratogenic legislation matrimony Story Ideological-horizon aspects? marital ideology maybe augustan legislation • widow – well know for chasteness • she’s upset about husband who • starving self – weeping in the tomb • soldier guarding bodies • gives her something to eat • they have sex • gallows gets robed of deceased • string up husband Petronius

  15. The Pergamene Boy teratogenic legislation matrimony Story Ideological-horizon aspects? Petronius

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