After Dinner...

Eumolpus and Further TravailsJim Lohmar

Turlington 3302Tuesdays 1:30 – 4:45(ish)

The Satyricon as LiteratureA cross-genre experiment

spanning Menippean satire and the Greek romance novels.

'Nothing is as it seems.'recall: Tacitus Ann. 16.18-

19.

An anti-Odyssey?Importance of Priapus

Some possible name-etymologies

Giton: “neighbor”; “boy next door” (vicinus)

Encolpius: “in the lap”; “McGroin”

Eumolpus: “good singer”

Ascyltos: “not pulled about”; “firm?”Ascyltos as Priapus figure

Agamemnon

Trimalchio's Labyrinthine House and the loss of Giton

Like previously in the dinner, Encolpius, Giton, and Ascyltos try to leave.

Ascyltos 'rapes' Giton in the middle of the night.

Judgment Scene

Enter: EumolpusEncolpius inconsolable,

gets a hotel near the beach.

Goes to an art gallery... old man comes up to him.The boy of Pergamum.

Tells a 'Fall of Troy' ecphrasis for a painting.Vergil's Aeneid

comparanda.Nero's Fall of Troy

The Return of GitonEumolpus as a comment

on society:Lucan connection?Commentary on the state

of the arts?

Eumolpus and Encolpius end up back at hotel room...Giton shows up!Reconciliation scenePolyphemus scene

On Board with Lichas and Tryphaena

Eumolpus, Giton, and Encolpius hop on a ship that Eumolpus has contracted.

Begin to despair when voices are heard above deck.

Plan to escape...

The widow of Ephesus.

Disembark and begin walking towards CrotonCroton as a miniature

RomeEncolpius and friends as

con-men

Eumolpus' poem on the way

Croton; Encolpius and CircePeople of Croton take to

Eumolpus quickly.

Another textual break: final section of what is left.

Circe and Chrysis; Encolpius as “Polyaenus”Another 'tweaked' Odyssey

reference.Encolpius' impotence

revisited.

Oenothea's TreatmentEncolpius seeks treatment

from an old woman for impotence.Kills holy Goose.

A leather fascinum covered in oil, pepper, and crushed nettle seeds.

Oenothea and Proselenus seem to enjoy the ceremony more than Encolpius/Polyaenus

The End of the Con

Again, narrative breaks off and picks up as Eumolpus and Encolpius find out that their cover is blown.

Eumolpus' final wish.'the dog eat dog world of

first century Rome'