By Victoria Rimell
Metaphors of the physique shape a major function of Petronius' Satyricon. This ebook claims that the textual content could be learn as a unified entire instead of as episodic jumble, regardless of its fragmentation. awarded as anxious in addition to comedian, intricately dependent in addition to chaotic, the learn asserts that the Satyricon's imagery consistently mirrors obvious paradoxes. therefore corporeality is explored as a metaphor instead of simply as an index of the "low" style of the radical.
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Cat. and ; Verg. Aen. ; Hor. Epist. . As Connors observes (: ), the mini civil war on board Lichas’ ship of poetry is also a ‘storm’ which forecasts the shipwreck, while shipwreck is civil war (poetry). Tryphaena may be calming the dispute, but in another sense she is stirring up the sea for the real storm: turbatus can be used of roughening waves, clamor of thunder, while effudit can be used in connection with pouring rain. Similarly, when the storm does begin in Sat. , Encolpius’ conversation (dum haec taliaque iactamus / ‘we mulled over this and other matters’) echoes the association of Aeneas’ speech before the storm (talia iactanti, Aen.
A drink is ‘as good as an overcoat’ (tamen calda potio vestiarius est), or at Sat. , Ganymede ‘eats his clothes’ (iam pannos meos comedi), that is, he sells them to buy food. There may be a pun intended on panis (bread) here, as C. Connors has suggested to me. The allegorical use of the veil, which as Ferber (: ) argues ‘leads us to the veil as a symbol of allegory itself’, is especially common in the Bible: Paul interprets the veil as veiled speech, in contrast to the plain speech of the Christians.
At Sat. ” ’ Water is an aggressive animal that wants to eat you alive, from inside. Later on, when Lichas’ ship sinks and the crew jump overboard, the men are prey not to fish, which is Lichas’ fate (piscibus beluisque expositus es, Sat. ) but to fishermen (procurrere piscatores parvulis expediti navigiis ad praedam rapiendam / ‘Some fishermen in handy little boats rushed to seize their prey’, Sat. ). Of course, the idea that fishermen on the shores of Croton are likely to be aggressive cannibals as well as unscrupulous legacy-hunters is made all the more pertinent as the narrative continues, culminating, in the text as we have it, in the inhabitants’ willingness to eat Eumolpus’ flesh as if it were ready cash.