CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Roman Triumph, Performance Art, Sestertius

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Thief and a liar, gets sympathy from us: ascyltos. Servant: both rst men play for giton"s favours, both have a crush on him, involves them going to the diner party thrown by trimalchio. A wealthy freedman, is freed after his good service to his master and then goes on to be very rich: meet up with trimalchio in a bath house and they go to dinner. About their adventures there: passage pg 328. About his transition from slave status to wealth. Pretentious rise to riches in the style of a roman triumph: so rich that he had silver sculptures of the gods, box where his rst beard is kept. Signi cance: the shaving of the rst beard marks the transition to adulthood from boyhood. Has this in his shrine to show people that he is a self-made man, since he only has himself to point to instead of his ancestors (usually ancestors in the shrine: beware of the dog sign.