#petronius

[thoodleoo]

petronius really had the right idea being nero's arbiter elegentiae. wish i could get away with being someone's court faggot

#tagamemnon #petronius #he knew what he was about #now granted he did not really get away with it in the end. but still #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 15: The Library of Alexandria (Latin Edition)

If you have any non-Library of Alexandria lost works suggestions or more library of Alexandria items, please pop them in below for future polls.

#Time Travel #Emperor Claudius #Etruscan #Carchedonica #Petronius #Satyricon #Sulla #Agrippina the Younger #Livy #Pliny the Elder #Trajan #Dacians #Sulpicius Alexander

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Lucretius Propaganda:

His description of atomism is pretty damn accurate for an ancient Roman poet with literally no clue what the fuck he's talking

In this house we love Epicureanism

Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies

Petronius Propaganda

You really can't go wrong with the Cena Trimalchionis--crazy food, astrology, werewolves...there's really something for everyone

When Nero ordered him to commit suicide, threw a sumptuous party about it and broke all his expensive stuff so Nero couldn't take it. Queen Shit

Part Menippean satire, part Greek novel: a genuinely Wild fucking combo that makes one of the weirdest and coolest pieces of Latin prose out there

#tagamemnon #lucretius #petronius #latin #latin literature #latin literature tournament #classics #tournament polls #tumblr polls #bracket #satyricon #de rerum natura

[mudwerks]

Petronius, The Satyricon. Trans. William Arrowsmith.

Mentor MD283, New American Library. 1960.

#Petronius #The Satyricon #1960 #cover #vintage #art

[acertainidontknowwhat]

During the cena, the actuarius, “account-keeper”, reads out the acta beginning with the date: “seven days before the kalends of August” (VII. Kalendas Sextiles, 53.2 - July 26th). The month of Sextilis had been renamed Augustus in 8 BCE, and so its usage here is odd.

Is Trimalchio here attempting to sound Republican? Perhaps he is expressing a sense of nostalgia as it concerns his public image. Since the acta is imitative of a public announcement, then, it makes sense that Trimalchio would wish to represent himself in a way that shows traditional republican values

In this way, we see Trimalchio imitating the very figure he erases by making this change. What I mean by this is that the change leads to Augustus being removed from the Roman calendar.

The simple act of using Sextilis instead of Augustus signals to the reader what is missing and there is no mistaking that it is a reference to the Augustus since it was for him specifically the month was renamed. This is one of the many occurrences during the dinner of a charged absence.

#tagamemnon #petronius #satyrica #Augustus #ancient rome #latin language #classics #just dissertation things

[karaviav]

emperor nero.mp4 and petronius the cuntiest bitch to have ever graced this earth

"[...] he described fully the prince's shameful excesses, with the names of his male and female companions and their novelties in debauchery, and sent the account under seal to Nero" (tacitus, annals xvi 19)

#i love p. and the satyricon but i mean what else could you expect from someone who's obsessed with the master and margarita #roman empire #my roman empire #petronius #petronius arbiter #emperor nero #ancient rome #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #historical fanart

[scribl1ta]

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse's illustrations for Petronius' Satyricon trans. Laurent Tailhade, 1910

More info and sources below the cut

Image credits: I II III IV V

You can read the full translation here.

I love these paintings so much!! This edition would be so beautiful to have, although I think I would get distracted if I tried to actually read it😅Rochegrosse also did some gorgeous smaller illustrations throughout the text, which I did my best to edit together from the scan linked above:

#ancient rome #satyricon #roman literature #petronius

[the-little-fox-in-the-box]

Being a classics major be like *develops a parasocial relationship with someone who died 2000 years ago*

#ancient rome #classics #dark academia #cicero #horace #vergil #sappho #martial #petronius #dante alighieri #tagamemnon

[girlartemisia]

Not sure if it needs some touch ups still, but HERE HE IS, OUR ARBITER ELEGANTIAE

inviting you into the Satyricon

#petronius #satyricon #this is probably the most complex digital drawing I've ever done (composition wise) so I'm quite satisfied #oh what's that? style consistency? I don't know her. #colour experimentation? kissing her with tongue

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Petronius, in his dying letter to Nero:

"[...] Do not suppose, I pray, that I am offended because thou didst kill thy mother, thy wife, and thy brother; that thou didst burn Eome and send to Erebus all the honest men in thy dominions. No, grandson of Chronos. Death is the inheritance of man; from thee other deeds could not have been expected. But to destroy one's ear for whole years with thy poetry, to see thy belly of a Domitius on slim legs whirled about in a Pyrrhic dance; to hear thy music, thy declamation, thy doggerel verses, wretched poet of the suburbs, — is a thing surpassing my power, and it has roused in me the wish to die. Eome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling. Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara. This is the wish and the last friendly counsel sent thee by the — Arbiter Elegantiae."

— Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, 1895–96

#henryk sienkiewicz #quo vadis #literature #classic literature #polish literature #historical novel #spilled ink #quotes #book quotes #literary quotes #excerpts #book excerpt #lit #books #books and libraries #prose #petronius #letter

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"It is fear that first brought gods into the world."

-- Petronius

#Petronius #fear #religion #man made god #god is man made #religion is a mental illness

[swallowtail-ageha]

I just know back then in 60 ad proto fujoshis Esquilina and Procula were reading the satyricon by petronius while kicking their feet and giggling

#satyricon #petronius arbiter #petronius #tagamemnon #roman empire #roman literature

[ancientorigins]

Imagine a glass you can bend and then watch it return to its original form. A glass that you drop but it doesn’t break. Stories say that an ancient Roman glassmaker had the technology to create a flexible glass, ‘vitrium flexile’, but a certain emperor decided the invention should not be.

#roman #glass #invention #Tiberius #Pliny #Petronius #story #Legend #emperor #ancient #history #ancient origins

[greeneyed-thestral]

#just search Petronius' Satyricon and then come back to this #now imagine Azi at Trimalchio's dinner #good omens #good omens 1x03 #hard times #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #petronius

[mus-rusticus]

diversity win! the narrator of the satyricon is gay!

#classics #roman history #roman literature #satyricon #petronius #the satyricon

[acertainidontknowwhat]

I’m excited to announce that this is coming out December 31st with the University of Edinburgh Press! I am glad to be a part of this project and I think this first-of-its-kind book will be of great interest to a lot of people.

#tagamemnon #toxic masculinity #masculinity #ancient #toxic masculinity in the ancient world #ancient history #ancient literature #me #petronius #Satyrica #satyricon