CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Role Reversal, Priapus, Aeneid

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

Document Summary

Story itself involves 3 these people as primary characters. Encolpius, ascyltos, giton, three young wanderers going around getting into issues, looking for fast buck and looking for love. Lots of escapades being involved courted in love or getting involved in raunchy escapades. Object of encolpivs and ascyltos is giton their servant, both enamoured by him and causes tension between them. Werewolf incident, tomb incident but focusing on story about trimalchio who is a wealthy freeman began life as a slave but subsequently been freed and then ended up being an extremely wealthy individual. Petronius tells about his rise from being slave to riches pg. Telling it in the way of the poor characters walking through trimalchio house at a dinner party, and some of these riches are set up in the atrium of his house, reception of his house. Here is an image of a slave market, tells the story of trimalchio.