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Trimalchio's Feast

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Trimalchio’s Feast
lavishly huge banquet given by wealthy vulgarian. [Rom. Lit.: Satyricon]
See : Feast
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Trimalchio's feast 'becomes an exhaustive mapping of the world,' with dishes from the entire orb that bear the signs of the zodiac, but, as Conte infers, 'geography has become gastronomy'; it is 'a life completely subordinated to the needs of the body, a life in which food becomes a Protagorean "measure of all things"' (1996, 122-123; cf.
The sublime and the bovine: Petronius' Satyricon and Gustave ... by Endres, Nikolai / Ancient Narrative
Memline, unlike every other artist established in Flanders from Louvain to Lille, contributed nothing to the Trimalchio's Feast which followed the marriage of Duke Charles the Bold to Margaret of York in 1468.
A celebration of Hans Memlinc by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
38) Trimalchio's feast "becomes an exhaustive mapping of the world," with dishes from the entire orb that bear the signs of the zodiac, but, as G.
Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the ... by Endres, Nikolai / Ancient Narrative
 
 
 
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