#Satyricon

[dduane]

Today's small mystery

Reshelving some books that got out of their normal shelf in the upstairs bedroom, with the usual side revelations: (a) I need ebook copies of all the [Insert Color Here] Fairy Books, as it'd be good to have a collection of searchable texts*; (b) I need ebook copies (implying searchable texts) of the entire C.S. Lewis collection, as hunting for one of the more obscure quotes online is a waste of time that could be spent doing useful things like baking, or on creating crap renders of the recalcitrant manes of local demigods: (c) Hmm, some of these have bookmarks stuck in them. I wonder what those are about...?

I went through two or three books that had marks in them (blank sticky notes, usually), and in all but one case was able to figure out why I'd marked them, and make a note elsewhere of their content and implications. (I've been flirting with getting into Obsidian to see if it helps me stay on top of this kind of issue, but am not sure I really need it yet.)

This one, though, has left me baffled. It might have simply been where I paused in my reading... but that's not usually how I use my bookmarks. Normally I place them as a reminder that there was something on that page or spread that needed my attention for some reason, or was related to something else that was going on in life, or writing, or something. In this case... now all I have to try to recall is exactly what the issue was.

The bookmark tells me that we're almost certainly talking about something I was reading in 1994, because it's a train ticket from the 5th of September in that year, which I bought on the train (because there's no "from" marking on it), while heading to Wicklow Town. ("Cill Mhantain" is Irish for Wicklow.)

...The book is the Abbey Classics edition of Petronius's Satyricon: the Burnaby translation of 1694. (Interestingly, the National Library of Ireland has the same edition I do. Though I bet theirs is in better condition.) This is what we'd think of as a paperback, though it's actually bound with a soft cloth binding and has a paper dust jacket. (A scan of the front cover and front flap is below.) There are a lot of places I could have picked this up used in Dublin, but my guess is that it comes from one of a number of trips to Hay-on-Wye.

...And here are the pages where the train ticket was stuck in: a passage from the middle of Trimalchio's feast.

So now all I have to do is work out why I marked those pages... thirty years ago. (eyeroll) Yay.**

Something to occupy myself while I go off and make a flammkuchen...

*They're all online at Gutenberg, so that's all right.

**Though looking at the obscure idiom/metaphor "She's a very Pye at his Bolster," I wonder if it was something to do with that. ETA: So the thing to do when you run into a phrase like this in translation is to check another translator and see what they've got. It hadn't occurred to me on first glance that "Pye" wasn't a culinary reference, but a contraction of "magpie". And surprise, the 1913 Heseltine translation at Tufts' Perseus Digital Library has this as "a magpie belonging to a sofa": i.e. a bird that "henpecks" you in your own bed. Ow.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 15: The Library of Alexandria (Latin Edition)

If you have any non-Library of Alexandria lost works suggestions or more library of Alexandria items, please pop them in below for future polls.

[wolvenqveen]

I finally finished my black metal battle jacket

[blackmetaltv]

Erik Danielsson (Watain) with Frost (Satyricon & 1349).

[mabellonghetti]

Tina Aumont in "Satyricon" (dir. Gian Luigi Polidoro - 1969).

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Lucretius Propaganda:

His description of atomism is pretty damn accurate for an ancient Roman poet with literally no clue what the fuck he's talking

In this house we love Epicureanism

Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies

Petronius Propaganda

You really can't go wrong with the Cena Trimalchionis--crazy food, astrology, werewolves...there's really something for everyone

When Nero ordered him to commit suicide, threw a sumptuous party about it and broke all his expensive stuff so Nero couldn't take it. Queen Shit

Part Menippean satire, part Greek novel: a genuinely Wild fucking combo that makes one of the weirdest and coolest pieces of Latin prose out there

[lvpvs-tenebris]

Satyricon - dark medieval times

[scribl1ta]

This is more stuff for my modern au😭my hc is that Encolpius being jobless and essentially talentless works as one of those reenactors you can take photos with around Pompeii

[astralbondpro]

Satyricon // K.I.N.G.

[dancingsunwheels]

Frost & Fenriz

[anticbrvtalist]

Federico Fellini, Satyricon. 1969

[tygerland]

Mary Ellen Mark Federico Fellini on the Set of Satyricon. 1969.

[malfeitorworldender]

Nocturno Culto & Satyr - Satyricon live in Paris (1996) Tour with Gorgoroth and Dissection

[tommydashwood]

[blackmetaltv]

Did you know that in 1999, a Black Metal supergroup called "Eibon" was formed? This legendary band brought together renowned musicians including Fenriz, Killjoy, Phil Anselmo & Satyr. Unfortunately, despite their incredible talent, the collaboration didn't work...

[tina-aumont]

Tina Aumont as Circe in Gian Luigi Polidoro's "Satyricon" (1969).

Photos published in December 1968 Continental magazine.

Ebay.