#trimalchio

[scribl1ta]

商🧮福🍀利📈

[dative-ciceroni-pizza]

rip Trimalchio, you would have loved hyperrealistic cakes that look like savory foods

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

Comparing The Princeton Draft vs Trimalchio vs The Great Gatsby like

[vessels-for-good-intent]

new book hehe

[acertainidontknowwhat]

We can see performance in the Cena as ritual given the fact that Trimalchio’s dinner was an oft-repeated event. Based on internal evidence, we know that those in attendance (aside from Encolpius and his friends) have seen the show before, perhaps multiple times. Also, the dining room itself is characterized as a sacred space as it must be entered right foot first (an enslaved member of the household stands by the dining-room door and reminds everyone to enter in a religiously respectable manner). Everything that takes place during the dinner, therefore, can be characterized as an imitation of ritual.

On a similar note, most argue that the performance ends when Trimalchio's wife, Fortunata, calls Trimalchio canis, "a dog", after he kisses one of the enslaved boys. Encolpius tells us that it was at this moment that the good nature of the dinner ended, but that does not necessarily mean the performance stopped, only that the tone of the performance shifted. The mood quickly becomes tragic as tears begin to flow: Fortunata cries, Trimalchio cries, and even Scintilla and Habinnas cry. The change in mood leads to Trimalchio's extended speech which doubles as an autobiography and ultimately his mock funeral. It seems unlikely that the mock funeral would have been introduced without the major shift in tone.

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[grundoonmgnx]

AES + F Group, Feast of Trimalchio, 2009, Oil on canvas

AES+F. Пир Трималхиона, 2009

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

Another one

Trimalchio

vs The Great Gatsby

Like yeah fitz jordan has done some questionable things man. Like date nick carraway on purpose, but that’s beside the point, isn’t it