I found it really cool that one of the courses was a different food with a zodiac sign. I mean I am a libra and it was a bunch of cake and desserts. I love cake and that just was something that made me smile. But this theme of zodiac signs seems to continue through out the entire courses of the feast. This was something we don't really seem to hear about a lot of zodiac signs.
Mainly I felt that the whole feast was for Trimalchio to show off the fact that he has money and lots of servants. The longer the dinner continued the more I hated Trimalchio! In chapter 49 he throws wine in the face of others and says that they can have whichever wine they want. He also starts to try to talk about myths with his guests and it shows how much he isn't educated compared to the rest of them. He also gets his mythology wrong again in chapter 52... I really think this guy is just trying to show off but isn't really able to do it well.
I feel that his guest just sat there and humored him with his over done feast, but no one had the heart to tell him that he was being a horrible host and making a fool of himself.
I found this really awesome link that explains much of the dinner, it even goes through it course by course! Enjoy guys!
I feel that his guest just sat there and humored him with his over done feast, but no one had the heart to tell him that he was being a horrible host and making a fool of himself.I found this really awesome link that explains much of the dinner, it even goes through it course by course! Enjoy guys!
I found the zodiac thing really interesting as well, I've never encountered that in regards to food! Thanks for sharing the link!
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are spot on portraying the modern equivalent of roman decadence in a way. I have heard of dinners similar to this in frat houses.
ReplyDeleteAustin you would be spot on... some Fraternity houses are like this sadly.
ReplyDeleteI also felt pretty lost and confused during the reading. I caught myself scrolling down the page and jumbling words and paragraphs because it was simply too much to take in at once. I made it through though, but still felt confused and disturbed because of how strange the entire story was. I tried imagining what I would do if I were a guest at a dinner party like that. How ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteHa, I forgot how ridiculous he sounded when he was telling those weird myth stories. Some guy was telling an interesting story and Trimalchio tried to one-up him with a personal encounter with werewolves or witches or something lol.
ReplyDeleteI was also very confused and lost during the reading. There were a lot of words I also had to look up. I do also agree with you that Trimalchio really was ill-mannered and he was very disturbing to me.
ReplyDeleteYeah I can definitely agree with everyone that had difficulty reading this... I was able to read through it quickly but every once in a while I would notice I wasn't sure what I was reading...
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