Podcasts about Petronius

Is Gov. Janet Mills of Maine an ‘Neo-Confederate'? Yes, and “she is taking states' rights to the extreme,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today's edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” After refusing to comply with a Trump administration order banning men from competing in women's high school sports, the Department of Justice launched a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education for failing to protect women in women's sports, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday. “Janet Mills may not know it, but she's an insurrectionist. She's a neo-Confederate. She is taking states' rights to the extreme. Rather than saying, ‘I oppose the federal government. I will go to court to stop you. But if I lose, I will comply because the states are subordinate to the federal' —she's not doing that. She's right in the spirit of the old Confederacy… “I can cite you chapter and verse from the poems of Catullus to the novels of ‘Satyricon,' of Petronius, ‘The Satyricon,' of men who dress up like women. Both as transvestites who are still, I guess you'd say heterosexual, but they have a fetish to wear women's clothes or that who really want to be women. In the case of a poem or two, they castrate themselves. It's found in ancient history.   “And statistically, if you go back before this controversy happened, it was a very small number of the population. About less than 1% identified as transgendered or transsexual. Then it became, in the last decade, the next civil rights frontier. And all of a sudden, we had universities where students were polled at 10% or 20% or 30%, thought they might want to transition. It became almost a cult following.”  

Title: Logical Gospel vs. The Wisdom of Men Text: Acts 17:16-21 FCF: We often struggle reasoning with people and sharing the gospel with them. Prop: Because man's wisdom produces only separation from God, we must go on reasoning and proclaiming the gospel. Scripture Intro: NET [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts 17. In a moment we'll read starting in verse 16 from the New English Translation, which is the same as the pew bible. Or you can follow along in the version you prefer. Last week the missionary team once again shared the gospel message with a group of Jews. But hope was restored to Paul for his countrymen, in that the Bereans eagerly sought the scriptures and proved Paul's message out. Many believed in Jesus as their Messiah. Not only them but also many God-Fearers and prominent pagans within the city. But Paul had to flee to Athens because Jews from Thessalonica came to cause trouble. Silas and Timothy in Berea to help the fledgling church. We noted last week that for the last couple messages Luke has been showing us the logical, well-reasoned, biblical and historically ancient character of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have stated several times that the gospel is not far from us and makes complete sense when the Lord opens our eyes to see it. It is not a blind leap but a reasoned step of faith that God requires to unite us to Christ. But today, we will see Luke float back to the need for God to intervene to save anyone, because today we will see the pinnacle of men's wisdom and it will fail to grasp hold of the gospel. Please stand with me to give honor to and focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: Heavenly Father, we do recognize that there is something wholly broken in mankind. That from birth we are estranged from You. That no child is born who naturally loves You and their neighbor. No child is born who needs to be taught to lie, to retaliate, to selfishly scream, to hate, to hurt, to harm, to steal, or to covet. Lord as we look to Your Word today, we will not behold great mysteries in which You reveal more about Yourself but instead we will see a putrid and deflatingly real picture of mankind. That the best we have to offer without You, is so woefully short that were it not for Your promises of salvation for mere faith, we might despair. Help us, Your people, to remember who we are without You so that we may better represent You to those who are still without You. Give us grace to see Your truth about ourselves, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Transition: Let us get right to the text this morning. I.) The wisdom of men produces foolish idolatry, so we must go on reasoning and proclaiming the gospel. (16-18) a. [Slide 2] 16 - While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols. i. [Slide 3] Athens used to be a prominent city of thought. Because of its historical significance, it achieved a “free allied city” status in the Roman Empire. ii. However, Athens at this time was in decline. About 500 years past its golden age. iii. When Paul arrives, it is a city resting on its laurels. It has become nothing more than a place of continuous discussion with very little action. It was all flash and no heat. iv. Paul does not lie around idly as he waits for Timothy and Silas to join him in Athens. v. Instead, he roams about the city observing the culture there and taking the spiritual temperature of the city of Athens. vi. Unfortunately, what he discovers is unsettling. vii. [Slide 4] The word translated “greatly upset” here in the NET can be positive or negative. viii. So, before we attempt to assess the flavor of Paul's upsettedness let's look at the object. ix. At what was Paul greatly upset? x. He was upset at the sheer number of deities actively worshipped in the city of Athens. xi. [Slide 5] Normally, cities would have one or two pagan deities that were their patron gods. Deities that struck at the heart of the needs of the city or their unique situations. xii. But in Athens, it seemed to be a veritable cornucopia of religious affections. And people of that day wrote extensively about the robust religious significance in the city of Athens. 1. One writer concluded that Athens was the most religious city in all of Greece. 2. Another writer stated that there were perhaps more than 75,000 statues of gods in Athens. 3. Still another writer named Petronius said, somewhat in jest, “Our country is so full of deities, that one may more easily find a god than a man.” xiii. [Slide 6] Another piece of the puzzle we must examine is the fact that Paul felt this in his spirit. This gives us a clue that whatever feeling Paul had on this matter – it was primarily a spiritual feeling. It was not occupied in the physical realm but in the spiritual one. xiv. So, what do we think the feeling of Paul being upset is about? Is he angry? Sad? Worked up? Stirred to action? xv. I'd say yes to all of those. xvi. [Slide 7] Paul was beside himself. He was saddened by the religious confusion, angry at the false teaching damning people to hell, but simultaneously motivated and stirred to action. Not to go ripping down statues or stirring up revolution – but instead to share the truth of Christ. The only message which is the cure all to the spiritual confusion running rampant in the city. xvii. So, how does he do this? b. [Slide 8] 17 - So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there. i. So, Paul goes on a blitzkrieg gospel offensive. ii. He goes to the Jews. He goes to the God-Fearers. He even goes to the marketplace and shares the gospel to any who happened to be there. iii. And he does this… every day. iv. The Jews and God-Fearers were at least monotheists who believe in Yahweh. But they still needed to hear about the next step of Judaism. That Yahweh had come in flesh as The Son the Messiah of God to save His people from their sins. v. But Paul also took the gospel to the pagans in the city. They needed to hear that the Lord of glory had come and His Kingdom was here. That He would judge the world soon. vi. We've seen Paul's interactions with Jews and God-fearers before. We can expect it to have gone similarly here. But Luke chooses to focus on Paul's interactions with Gentiles whom he met in the city. c. [Slide 9] 18 - Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, i. Paul encounters those whom Luke describes as philosophers. ii. [Slide 10] What is philosophy? 1. Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It attempts to answer the questions, what do we know, how do we know it, what is reality, and what is the meaning of life? 2. With such a definition, it is impossible to arrive at the conclusion that philosophy is somehow divorced from theology. 3. Truly they are separate studies, for theology studies God. But one cannot discuss knowledge, reality and existence without eventually arriving at whether or not there is a god and what his/her/their role is in shaping it all. iii. But what are the Epicurean and Stoic schools of philosophy? 1. [Slide 11] Epicurean philosophy was founded by Epicurus. a. With a rudimentary understanding of atoms, they concluded the world was material. To the extent that the gods, if they existed at all, were also material. b. They denied any sort of providence or determinism and insisted that the gods were disconnected from all humanity. Disinterested in their affairs. The gods did not make the world, they are merely part of it. c. The core tenets they held were that in our existence and our reality we must pursue happiness through avoidance of pain and mental disturbance. d. That we must pursue pleasures of the mind to the degree that we achieve contentment and tranquility without being greedy. e. This included being content with a simple life. f. The motto of the Epicurean was “Nothing to fear in God; Nothing to feel in death; Good pleasure can be attained; Evil pain can be endured.” 2. [Slide 12] Stoic philosophy or Stoicism came from a man named Zenu. a. Stoics believed that God's relationship to creation is like that of a soul to the body. Thus the gods or God principle is inherently linked to reality and our existence. b. The spiritual realm was made up of refined matter (materialists). There is nothing that is not material in Stoicism. c. It taught i. To live according to nature is the highest goal ii. Virtue ought to be pursued and is the key to a well-lived life. iii. Self-Sufficiency and autonomy are the highest good. iv. Ethics are central to the discussion of how to live a morally good or virtuous life. v. Self-control and Rationalism is the means to overcoming destructive emotions. vi. All things will be that will be – determinism. d. The core virtues that ought to be pursued were courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. e. As such, stoics often appeared cold and pitiless because they believed in expressing indifference toward things that would cause others great emotion. f. Indifference is the only appropriate emotion to express, when all things are predetermined. iv. [Slide 13] It is worth noting that Epicureanism would have been the most opposed to Christianity and its teaching of the two mentioned here by Luke. v. It is also worth noting that Epicureanism was probably the least represented of the two in Athens. With the Stoics being the most represented. vi. Thus, we have a similar relationship to the Sadducees and the Pharisees here. vii. Therefore, The gospel would resonate with both groups on one level and be wholly rejected by both groups on another. viii. So, what do these lovers of the pursuit of wisdom think of what Paul has to say? d. [Slide 14] and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” i. Because we use the word babbler in a fairly specific way. This English translation captures some of what these people were asking but not all. ii. When we hear the words foolish babbler, we get the impression that they thought Paul was out of his mind. That he wasn't making much sense. Perhaps even a bit crazy. iii. That isn't far from what Luke is saying, but there is another layer of understanding to see here. iv. [Slide 15] A babbler is a scavenger. Actually, it is the name of a specific kind of scavenger. It is a crow. The crow is the perfect embodiment of this insult. Crows are surprisingly smart, conniving, vindictive, seed scavengers. And their caw sounds like someone prattling on loudly, doesn't it? v. So what they are asking is not necessarily, what does this crazy person want to say…although that is part of it. vi. It is actually quite insulting. vii. They essentially accuse Paul of being a dilettante. A person who knows just enough about several subjects to appear to be more knowledgeable than he is. They accuse him of cherry picking things from various philosophies in an effort to appear wise when instead he isn't making any sense at all because he doesn't truly understand anything he has said. viii. [Slide 16] These folks recognize that what Paul teaches in the gospel has parts and pieces of other philosophies… but doesn't conform to any of them. ix. Perhaps you noticed as we dissected Epicureanism and Stoicism that there were elements within those philosophies that were biblical. x. These folks recognize their philosophy in the gospel but also that the gospel is something totally at odds with their philosophy. xi. Well, this is what one group is asking… What are other people saying? e. [Slide 17] Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) i. Some suggest that the first group that spoke was the Epicureans, who as we noted before would have the most against Christianity and its teachings. ii. These others then, with what at first appears to be a kinder accusation, seem to be the Stoics. iii. They say that Paul seems to be announcing gods whom they had yet to hear of. iv. There are a few things happening here that we should notice. v. [Slide 18] First, the word for gods is not theoi but daimonion. Demons. 1. In Gentile paganism demons were not necessarily evil. This word would refer either to disembodied spirits or lesser gods like angels or demons. 2. Therefore, their understanding is that Paul is preaching new gods that they had never heard of but gods that need to be added to their pantheon… not obliterate it. vi. [Slide 19] Second, with Luke's parenthetical comment here, he attempts to help us understand their conclusion. 1. The reason they said this was because he proclaimed the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection. Thanks Luke – that really clears it up

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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It's all Greek to us, so we've invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me. Listen to Greeced Lightning wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Greeced Lightning on Social Media: https://x.com/Greecedlightpod https://www.instagram.com/greecedlightningpod/ https://bsky.app/profile/greecedlightning.bsky.social Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/when-men-carried-clubs-and-women-played-ding-dong Read Lysistrata by Aristophanes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm Chi-Raq on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chi-raq-lysistrata/id1667396859?i=1000623681450 Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/il-primo-re-the-founding-of-rome/id1667396859?i=1000641708307 Attila on SotSA: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e60 “Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aid8hBOGePw “Chickens don't clap!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaS_WXQ9QK0 Circummingo: https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/verb/1700/ Petronius' werewolf story: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D62 Lingurium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyngurium Crannogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It's all Greek to us, so we've invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me.Listen to Greeced Lightning wherever you get your podcasts.Follow Greeced Lightning on Social Media:https://x.com/Greecedlightpodhttps://www.instagram.com/greecedlightningpod/https://bsky.app/profile/greecedlightning.bsky.socialWin some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Twitter: @SotSA_PodcastBluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this episode:Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/when-men-carried-clubs-and-women-played-ding-dongRead Lysistrata by Aristophanes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htmChi-Raq on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chi-raq-lysistrata/id1667396859?i=1000623681450Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/il-primo-re-the-founding-of-rome/id1667396859?i=1000641708307Attila on SotSA: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e60“Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aid8hBOGePw“Chickens don't clap!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaS_WXQ9QK0Circummingo: https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/verb/1700/Petronius' werewolf story: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D62Lingurium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LynguriumCrannogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog

Frank and Gaz go long and deep on the question of who got to meet the Beatles 'for real' in Australasia and beyond. In navigating the sensitive theme of sex and rock 'n' roll, they return to classical roots in the writing of Petronius, Ovid and Apuleius. Informed by these texts and the more recent 'Sex and the Beatles: 400 entries', they ask whether Beatles lyrics from 1963-64 suggest less innocent themes. Are there power games at play? And when John Lennon compared the tour to Satyricon, did he have in mind scopophilia?

SPOOKY TIME. Welcome back, Herders! In folklore, a werewolf[a] (from Old English werwulf 'man-wolf'), or occasionally lycanthrope[b] (from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος, lukánthrōpos, 'wolf-human'), is an individual that can shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or the occasional scratch from another werewolf) with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon.[c] Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy,[d] are Petronius (27–66) and Gervase of Tilbury (1150–1228).The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century.The persecution of werewolves and the associated folklore is an integral part of the "witch-hunt" phenomenon, albeit a marginal one, accusations of lycanthropy being involved in only a small fraction of witchcraft trials.[e] During the early period, accusations of lycanthropy (transformation into a wolf) were mixed with accusations of wolf-riding or wolf-charming. The case of Peter Stumpp (1589) led to a significant peak in both interest in and persecution of supposed werewolves, primarily in French-speaking and German-speaking Europe. The phenomenon persisted longest in Bavaria and Austria, with persecution of wolf-charmers recorded until well after 1650, the final cases taking place in the early 18th century in Carinthia and Styria.[f]

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Boccaccios "Decamerone" får ny relevans varje gång ord som epidemi och karantän är på tapeten. Torbjörn Elensky presenterar en fräck klassiker och funderar över var dagens nya berättelser tar form. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Ursprungligen publicerad 2020-03-23.Strax innan Coronaepidemin bröt ut vintern 2020 satt jag med en grupp vänner och diskuterade vad som skulle bli kvar av vår kultur vid en världsomspännande katastrof. Vi pratade om hur man planerar att gömma konst, historiska föremål och andra artefakter i väldiga bergrum. Och vi diskuterade givetvis hur stora problemen skulle bli kring tolkningsfrågor, värderingen av verk och så vidare. Hur många kvinnor respektive män? Vilka kulturformer skulle prioriteras? Vilka hänsyn till så kallad representativitet kommer att tas i ett skarpt läge?Bortsett från exakt vilka verk som skulle bevaras kom vi överens om att det viktigaste, det som överlever alla civilisationers sammanbrott, är berättelserna. De historier vi roar varandra med, de som förmedlar minnet av historiska, personliga, komiska och tragiska händelser, både sanna och mytiska, skulle vi, helt utan annan teknisk utrustning, bära med oss vart vi än tvingas vandra. Och över dem kan ingen bestämma: de som väcker genklang, som är viktiga för oss, kommer att föras vidare, medan de andra glöms bort.Den klassiska skildringen av hur en grupp vänner drar sig undan världens sönderfall för att i trygg avskildhet fördriva dagarna med berättande är Giovanni Boccaccios "Decamerone", en av de självklara stora litterära klassikerna. Året är 1348, Florens härjas av pesten, döden är överallt, omväxlande med paniskt festande. Samhället har praktiskt taget kollapsat, då sju unga kvinnor träffas i en kyrka och bestämmer sig för att dra sig undan till en lantvilla för att njuta av lugnet, naturen och varandras umgänge. De bjuder också med tre unga män, som lämpligt nog råkar komma in i kyrkan. Så fördriver dessa tio vänner tio dagar med tio historier var, vilket gett oss hundra noveller.Pesten slog sönder det medeltida Europa. Givetvis var det en katastrof för alla som genomlevde den. Särskilt Italien, som inte var någon enad nation vid den tiden, men där de flesta av Europas rikaste stater och städer låg, drabbades. Feodalismen gick under i pesten. De gamla adelsfamiljerna miste inte bara sina lantarbetare utan många förlorade även egendomarna, till de nyrika som ägnade sig åt handel och bankväsende. Sådana som familjen Medici. Kyrkans makt minskade också. Allt detta beredde vägen för en ny tro på människan, nya rikedomar och faktiskt själva renässansen. Boccaccio beskriver denna öppning i tiden, då människan träder in på scenen i helfigur."Decamerone" ger en direkt bild av vardagslivet i 1300-talets Toscana. I en tid då litteraturen dominerades av helgonlegender, riddarromaner och höviska diktverk, samt då man gärna använde klassiska förebilder och varierade välbekanta historier valde Boccaccio att skriva rakt av, på folkspråket, om sin egen samtid, i noveller fulla av social kritik, bedrägerier, många berättelser om fräcka präster och inte så lite sexuella äventyr, där inte minst historierna om listiga kvinnor som lurar sina makar för att kunna ligga med sina älskare är framträdande. De många kyrkliga dignitärerna i Decamerone är löjeväckande figurer som inte har mer makt över andra än över sig själva. Och sin egen kåthet och girighet behärskar de inte alls. Ingen av berättelserna skildrar de yttersta tingen eller hur någon högre makt ska döma oss för våra synder, utan enbart människor i relation till andra människor.Nya konstformer skapas genom kanoniseringen av låga konstformer, skrev den den ryske litteraturforskaren och Viktor Sjklovskij 1923. Det är lätt att inse att han har rätt, om man gör en snabb översikt över historien. Etablerad konst stelnar alltid förr eller senare och tappar den vitalitet som krävs, åtminstone i vår europeiska tradition, för att den ska vara angelägen för såväl folk som furstar. Och impulserna till nyskapande kommer inte sällan från det folkliga. Decamerone är ett tydligt exempel: en samling berättelser utan högre syfte än att underhålla, lagda i munnen på kvinnor, som talar fritt om sex och synd och falska präster. Decamerone må vara författad av en man, men det är kvinnornas bok.Visst hade Boccaccio litterära förebilder, men inte den högstämde Vergilius som hans äldre kollega Dante utsåg till sin guide genom inferno – och vars Aeneid han ville överträffa med sin gudomliga komedi. Utan Apuleius, en prosaförfattare som var verksam på 100-talet e Kr och vars skabrösa roman Den gyllene åsnan skildrar allt tänkbart snusk och sex och groteskerier i form av berättelser infogade i en ramhandling. Där Boccaccios ramhandling utgörs av de unga vännernas stilla samvaro skildrar Apulejus hur huvudpersonen flänger runt förvandlad till åsna. Men det låga, det folkliga, har verken gemensamt. Totalt tre av de hundra novellerna i Decamerone går tillbaka på antika förebilder, två på Apuleius, och en på den lika folkligt burleska Satyricon, av den romerske författaren Petronius.En pandemi tvingar oss alla att ta nya hänsyn. Några drar sig tillbaka tillsammans, i självvald karantän, precis som de unga kvinnorna och männen i Florens 1348. Liksom till exempel somliga parisare i mars 2020 försökte ta sig till sina landställen, för att vaka ut karantänen på behörigt avstånd från storstadens hotande kaos. Men vad sysslar isolerade ungdomar med i vår högteknologiska tid? Och vilka är de konstformer som kommer att kanoniseras framöver?Den folkliga kreativiteten och berättelserna sprids mest via sociala medier i form av Tiktok-videor, memer och så vidare idag. Dessa tekniska möjligheter och inte minst de former de ger upphov till påverkar naturligtvis även litteraturen och konsten. Exempelvis finns det något fascinerande i memens form, där samma bild åtföljs av olika texter, och därmed får helt olika innebörd, fast hela tiden i ett sammanhang som skapas av memernas relation till varandra i nåt slags oändlig kedja av kollektiva associationer. Eller för den delen de omfattande sammanställningar av Tiktok- och vinevideor, superkorta filmsnuttar som ofta innehåller bisarra skämt, satir, rena slapsticken och variationer på teman, som är både självkommenterande och utåtriktade i närmast oändliga loopar.Viktor Sjklovskij skrev i anslutning till det tidigare citerade, att ”Konsten är, innerst inne, ironisk och destruktiv.” Han uttryckte detta mitt i det kaos som följde åren efter den ryska revolutionen, då han mot alla odds envist arbetade vidare med sina litterära projekt, medan världen föll samman runt omkring honom. Men även om han påverkades av sin samtids katastrofala händelser hade han rätt i att konsten inte bara kan vara uppbygglig, tam, snäll och trösterik, inte om den ska vara verkligt angelägen för oss människor i vår osäkra tillvaro. Sex, maktmissbruk, lustiga sammanträffanden och bedrägerier, där den svagare sätter dit den starkare, roade oss i lika mycket i antikens Rom och medeltidens Florens som i vår samtid. Epidemier, pandemier och andra katastrofer kommer och går. Mänskligheten har hittills trots allt klarat sig. Och våra berättelser med oss.Torbjörn Elensky, författare

"So, let me get this straight.” Petronius glared at the two Roman soldiers sitting across from him. “There was a bright light, and you were knocked to the ground, and when you got up, the seal was broken, the two-ton stone was rolled away, and the body was gone?”.“There was also a roaring sound,” Justin added. He glanced over at Lucius, who was staring at the table in silence, still in shock..“A roaring sound,” their commanding officer repeated. “Like a lion?”.“No, like scraping—” Justin stopped to think. “But yes, also like a lion.”.Petronius threw his reed pen down in frustration. “A scraping sound that roared like a lion. Do you know how crazy that sounds? Honestly, if it weren't for the other soldiers on guard last night with similar nonsensical stories, you two would be on your way to the execution block for sleeping on the job, because this all sounds like a crazy dream!”.Justin saw Lucius cringe. “I know how it sounds,” said Justin. “That's also how it felt. Crazy. Impossible.”.Petronius dismissed them so he could converse with the other officers. “Don't go far,” he warned them. “You're being watched until we get this sorted out.”.Justin led Lucius to the courtyard. “I'll get us something to eat,” he said as he sat his friend beneath an olive tree. Lucius nodded and slumped against the tree trunk..Justin walked to a nearby booth selling pomegranates. As he handed his coins over, he wondered if this would be his last meal. What had the dead man—whose tomb they had been guarding—eaten for his last meal? Justin shuddered as he thought about the crucifixion he had witnessed just a few days before. He'd seen many executions, but this one was different. He'd gotten the distinct sense that this man in no way deserved the abuses heaped upon him as his death sentence wascarried out. Now, Justin wondered if he, too, might be executed..As he walked back toward the courtyard, a shadow fell across his path. “Move, please,” Justin said, his voice lacking the hard Roman edge it normally had. “Let me pass.”.The man took a step closer. Justin looked up, and the pomegranates he was holding fell to the ground. “It's you,” he whispered. The eyes were the same as when they beat him and nailed him to that cross, but he didn't look weak and helpless anymore. He looked healthy and whole..The man gave him a kind smile. “Go get your friend,” he said, nodding toward the courtyard. “Then follow me.” • Courtney Lasater.• After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to many people before He ascended into heaven. Today's fictional story imagines Jesus appearing to some of the Roman soldiers who were present at His tomb and His crucifixion. While we don't know if something like this happened or not, we do know that Jesus called many gentile (or non-Jewish) people, including Romans, to follow Him, both before His death and after His ascension. What does this reveal about God's compassion and mercy? (If you want to dig deeper, check out Matthew 8:5-13; 27:54; Mark 15:39; Luke 7:1-10; Acts 10:1-48; 16:23-34; 27:1-44.) .• Jesus is God in human flesh, and He came to die a terrible death on the cross for people who were His enemies. The reality is, without Jesus, we are all God's enemies. But because Jesus died and rose again for us, we can be forgiven and reconciled to God by putting our trust in Jesus (Romans 5:10). Have you ever felt like you were somehow disqualified from following Jesus? How might today's Bible passages speak into this?.• Jesus seeks out the lost, He meets us with immeasurable kindness, and He beckons us to follow Him. Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? What questions do you have? You can bring every question and every doubt to Jesus in prayer. He won't condemn you or dismiss you. Instead, He will listen and draw you close. In addition to talking to God, who are trusted Christians you could talk to? (You can also find out more on our "Know Jesus" page.) .Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4 (CSB)

This is the story of the events of Holy Week (Palm Sunday through Easter) as seen through the eyes of one of the Roman officials. This same official then later plays a key role in an event that threatens the survival of the Judean nation. Based on the story of the passion of Jesus in the Gospels, on the Gospel of Peter and on passages from Josephus and Philo. Show notes have been posted at retellingthebible.wordpress.com. Media in this Episode The following music was used for this media project: Music: AhDah by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3345-ahdah License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com Music: Running Fanfare by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4312-running-fanfare License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Skaga by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4751-skaga License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Support Retelling the Bible If you would like to support the work that I do creating these stories, go to patreon.com/retellingthebible and choose a level of support!

This short off-format episode is intended as a sort of fireside reading to be enjoyed by our overfull American listeners as they struggle to digest their Thanksgiving dinners.  It's from the late 1st-century novel, Satyricon by Petronius and describes what is quite likely Western literature's most decadent description of a feast. The post An After-Dinner Reading: Decadent Dining in the Satyricon appeared first on Bone and Sickle.

Since the first publication of his six-volume magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (1734-1797) has been ranked among the greatest historians who ever lived. What made his work different? Does it hold up today? And what lessons can a modern-day historian draw from his example? In this episode, Jacke talks with author Zachary Karabell about Gibbon's inspiration, influence, and legacy. ZACHARY KARABELL is the author of numerous books, including Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power and The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World. He is also the founder of the Progress Network at New America, the president of River Twice Capital, and the host of the podcast "What Could Go Right?" Additional listening suggestions: 321 Thucydides 285 Herodotus 36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terrifying creatures stalked the dead of night in ancient Rome, as a man named Niceros has learned all too well. A guest at a lavish dinner party thrown by the fabulously wealthy Gaius Trimalchio, Niceros reveals a hair-raising encounter from his past: the time he met a dreaded werewolf! A story from ancient Roman literature, based on Petronius' novel Satyricon (mid-1st century AD; 61-62) --- CREDITS: Music by Kevin MacLeod Episode Thumbnail Images: Bronze head of a wolf (Roman, 1st century AD) / Background from Openverse and Storyblocks WDS Logo Image: Kylix with Apollo playing the lyre and pouring a libation (c. 470 BC, Delphi Archeological Museum) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Rome Before Christ, After Fellini: Fellini's Satyricon On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I sit down to discuss one of the great names in all of cinema - The Great Italian Master Federico Fellini. Fellini's Satyricon (1970) is a powerful, overwhelmingly beautiful, and incredibly conflicting film based on Petronius's Late 1st Century AD look at Imperial Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. Whether a commentary on Ancient Rome, The Contemporary Italy of the late 1960s, or both, Fellini's vision is on display through the lens of the great Italian cinematographer Giuseppe "Peppino" Rottunno, and is breathtaking and troubling. Fellini was a director unafraid of tackling images, subject matter, and tastes. This is an incredible visual feast that will challenge your sense of cinema. It's a wild ride that offers so much while dancing on the razor's edge of offense. A truly remarkable film that challenges it's viewers on many, many levels. We're proud and thrilled to be talking about this great piece of cinema. Take a listen and let us know what you think.  Questions, Comments, Complaints, & Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com. Many Thanks for your continued love and support. 

يقدم لكم تطبيق وجيز خصم بمناسبة شهر رمضان للاشتراك السنوي بـ99.99 بدل 299 ريال سعودي، اشتركوا عبر https://wajeezlink.app.link/sawt ---- في العقد الماضي شهدنا الكثير من الأحداث التي تقع في اليمن وطغت الأحداث السياسية على كل شيء، لكن ربما لا يعرف بعض منا عن حضارة اليمن الممتدة وممالكها العظيمة التي جعلت الرومان والإغريق يرونها مصدرًا محوريــًا للتجارة. ممالك مثل معين وسبأ وحمير انتشر صيتها وسطوتها حتى وصلت لحدود الأردن شمالًا. في الحلقة الثالثة يتجول معنا بشر في تاريخ هذه الممالك التاريخية في محاولة لاسترجاع تاريخ هذه الحضارات المهمة في تاريخنا. كتب هذه الحلقة وقدمها بشر نجار، إنتاج وتحرير أحمد إيمان زكريا، تدقيق بيان عاروري، إخراج صوتي تيسير قباني، فريق النشر والترويج مرام النبالي وبيان حبيب وإمامة عثمان ومعالي الغريب. سجل أبيات الشعر عمر فارس. هذا الموسم من بودكاست منبت يأتيكم بدعم من مؤسسة ويكيميديا - المؤسسة الأم لويكيبيديا. الآراء الواردة في حلقات البودكاست لا تعبر عن رأي مؤسسة ويكيميديا أو العاملين بها أو انتماءاتها. المصادر تاريخ العرب قبل الإسلام، أ.د.محمد سهيل طقوش، دار النفائس. https://archeorient.hypotheses.org/11641 Shelagh Jameson, Chronology of the Campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 58, Parts 1 and 2 (1968), pp. 71-84,

Congrats to Richard Enriquez, who won week 1 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month! Cleopatra-schmeopatra!  Hear the stories of three queens of Africa who should also be household names (though only two of them for good reasons). Links to all the research resources are on the website. 3:06 Moremi of Ife 10:54 Amanirena of Kush 23:00 Ranavalona I of Madagascar  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. Sponsors: What Was That Like, Sly Fox Trivia, Sambucol Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   When King Karam of Zazzau, a Hausa city-state in what would become Nigeria, died in 1576, he successor has already been waiting to take the throne for 28 years.  After being schooled in political and military matters and proving themselves a skilled warrior, they had been named ‘Magajiya' or heir apparent at age 16.  King Kurama's favorite grandchild would eventually become Queen Aminatu.  My name…   History and folklore have a tendency to intertwine.  This can happen especially when the history has been systematically eradicated.  You'll hear me mention or notice on your own a lot of gaps and uncertainty in today's stories.  The history of Africa is the least well-known or widespread of any continents.  The cause for this is as sad as it is obvious.  Europeans in Africa saw no great libraries or troves of history books, so they assumed the peoples of Africa had kept no history.  In fact, their histories were kept orally, a system that worked out fine until some whitey, the blue-eyed devil, paddy-o, fay gray boy, honkey melon-farmers showed up and started kidnapping and killing people en masse.  Victims of the Atlantic slave trade would be intentionally removed from their families and neighbords and mixed together with people from other communities.  This meant a lack of common language, which was meant to stymie unrest and uprisings on New World plantations.  It also meant that those who knew their history had no one else of their nation to pass it on to, as well as all the gaps created in the collective knowledge back home.     But let's start well before Columbus “discovered” an island with half a million people living on it.   In the 12th century, life was nice for the Yoruba people in what is modern Nigeria, ruled by the beautiful and benevolent Queen Moremi Ajasoro, wife of Oranmiyan, the King of Ife-Ife, and mother to Oluorogbo.  But there was one small problem, and it's a big one.  Their neighbors, the Igbo, literally Forest People, had a persistent habit of raiding their villages to loot, pillage, and kidnap people into slavery, either for their own use or to sell.  This is *not the same as the Igbo ethnic group, and if my friend Phoenix is listening, did I say it right this time?  The raiders were not only terrifying for their violence, but also their strange, alien-like appearance.  So otherwordly were the Igbo that the Ife people thought they'd been sent by the gods as punishment.  The Ifes offered sacrifices to the gods, but all for naught.  The raids continued and the land was thrown into a state of panic.   Not one to sit idly by while her people suffered, Moremi hatched a plan, but she was going to need help and a lot of it.  She would allow herself to be taken prisoner by the Igbo so she could learn about them.  But before she put herself in such a precarious position, Moremi went to the river Esimirin and begged the goddess who lived there to help her save her people.  As the story goes, the river goddess said that she *would help, but only if Moremi would sacrifice that which was most precious and valuable to her.  Moremi was a queen, to wit, rollin' in dough, so she didn't hesitate to agree.  Whatever the river goddess wanted, surely she could spare it, and her people needed saving.   During the next Igbo raid Moremi allowed herself to be captured.  On account of her beauty, she was given to the King of the Igbos as a slave, but it was her keen intellect that allowed her to move up the ranks until she was made the anointed queen.  No idea how long that took or how many more raids happened in the meantime.  If you want to learn about a group of people, you need to infiltrate them and gain access to what they know.  Moremi was not only among the Igbo, she was their queen.  As spy-craft goes, that's S-tier work.  This was how she learned that the terrifying appearance of the raiders that had tormented her people was battle dress made from raffia palm and other grasses.  It made them look monster-y and demoralized their victims with pante-wetting terror, but if you know anything about dry grass and vegetation, you know that those costumes were extremely flammable.  The Ife didn't need spears and weapons to protect themselves.  All they needed was a bit of the old “How about a little fire, Scarecrow?”  She probably picked up tactics and such-like as well, but nobody who's written about her seems bothered to have written that down.  Same with her escape from the Igbo and return to Ife-Ife, which I'm sure was harrowing and adventuresome.  Either way, she returned to her people and said “You know those supernatural beings who've been pillaging and kidnapping us?  Yeah, they're just dudes and it turns out they're also covered in kindling.”  During the next Igbo raid, the Ife armed themselves with torches rather than weapons and were finally able to repel the invaders. [sfx cheer]  One assumes the Igbo backed off after that.  I mean, you didn't see Michael Jackson doing any more Pepsi commercials. [sfx unhappy crowd]  “Too soon”?  It was 1984.   Now that her people were safe, it was time to repay the river goddess for her help, so Moremi assembled a flock of cattle and other livestock, as well as cowrie shells and other valuables, a veritable lifetime's fortune, which she was glad to give up now.  But that wasn't what the goddess wanted, not even close.  As anyone who's ever heard a fairy tale can probably guess, the goddess wanted something much more valuable, more precious than all the commodities even a queen had to offer.  The river goddess demanded the life of Moremi's only son, Ela Oluorogbo.  To go back on her word would be to tempt an even worse fate for the Ife, so Moremi had no choice but to sacrifice Ela Oluorogbo to the river.  The Ifes wept to see this and vowed to their queen that they would all be her sons and daughters forever to repay and console her.   To this day, the Yoruba people mourn with her and hold her in the highest esteem of any women in the Kingdom.  According to sources, anyway.  If, like my friend Phoenix, you have family from that region and no better, not only do I not mind being corrected, I appreciate and even enjoy it, because it means I learned something.  You can always slide into my DM [soc med].  Queen Moremi is recognised by the Yoruba people because of this bravery and celebrated with the Edi Festival as well as with a 42ft/13m statue, popularly known as the "Queen Moremi Statue of Liberty," which is the tallest statue in Nigeria, and the fourth tallest in Africa.   [segue]   While the word “Nubian” is used broadly by many and incorrectly by most of those to refer to all things African or African-American, it refers to a specific region and its people.  In what is today Sudan, south of Egypt along the Nile, was the kingdom of Kush.  I'll wait while the stoners giggle.  By the way, if you work in the cannabis or CBD industry, I'd love to talk to you about doing voiceovers for your business.  My NPR voice, as we call it around the house, is just dripping with credibility.  The Kushites' northern neighbors, the Egyptians, referred to Nubia as, “Ta-Seti” which means the “Land of Bows,” in honor of the Nubian hunters' and warriors' prowess as archers.  Archery was not limited to men, an egalitarianism that gave rise to a number of women Nubian warriors and queens, the most famous of whom was Queen Amanirenas of Nubia, conqueror of the Romans.   Since 1071 BC, the peoples of East Africa had established a small realm along the Nile River valley south of Egypt known as the Kingdom of Kush.  Prior to their autonomy, the peoples of this region had been living under foreign occupation since around 1550 BC when they were absorbed by the Egyptian New Kingdom.  It was during that period that they adopted many aspects of Egyptian culture.  It was only during the catastrophic Bronze Age collapse that the Kushites were able to reassert their independence. By 754 BC, the Kushites actually managed to conquer their former overlords in the campaigns of King Piye and ruled them as the Pharaoh of the “Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.”  they were eventually pushed out of Egypt by the Assyrians by 674 BC, but still maintained independent rule over the region of Nubia.   For many centuries, this small autonomous kingdom had successfully coexisted alongside neighboring foreign dynasties that had been occupying the provincial territories of Egypt, such as the Achaemenid Persians and the Greeks of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.  It was at the end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, after the death of Cleopatra VII, the one we think of as Cleoptra, that things started to get a little hinky.  When the Roman Empire rose in prominence and annexed the territories of the House of Ptolemy by 30 BC, the Prefect, or appointed provincial governor for Egypt, Cornelius Gallus, attempted to make further incursions into the territories south of Egypt and impose taxation on the Kushites.  The Kushites said, collectively and officially, yeah, no.  They launched counter-attack raids against Roman settlements in southern Egypt in 27 BC The armies were led by the ruling Kushite monarchs at the time King Teriteqas and Queen (or Candace, meaning great woman) Amanirenas.   They began the campaign by launching [more] successful raids on Roman settlements Shortly after the war began, King Teriteqas was killed in battle, and was succeeded by his son Prince Akinidad, but Amanirenas was really in charge as queen regent.  In 24 BC, the Kushites launched another round of invasions into Roman Egypt after the new Prefect of Egypt Aelius Gallus was ordered by Emperor Augustus to launch an expedition into the province of Arabia Felix (now part of modern-day Yemen) against the Arabic Kingdom of Saba.  According to Strabo, the Kushites “sacked Aswan with an army of 30,000 men and destroyed imperial statues at the city of Philae.”  The Greek historian Strabo refers to Amanirenas as the “fierce one-eyed queen Candace.”  Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that?  Sorry, buried the lede there.  Amanirenas didn't lead her soldiers from the throne room, war room, or even a tent camp well behind the lines.  She was in the vanguard, properly leading as leaders these days can't be asked to.  Maybe if we required all the kings, presidents, prime ministers, dictators and their generals fight on the front lines with their sole heir beside them, things would be a little more chill up in this bish.  Amanirenas lost her eye to a nameless Roman soldier and I'm ready and willing to assume she immediately slew him in a single epic, slow-motion swing of her short-sword.      The Kushites had also met and engaged a Roman detachment outside the city of Syene.  The battle was another astounding victory for the Kushites, but these successes would be short-lived That same year, in a battle at Dakka, Prince Akinidad fell, just as his father had, and the Kushites fell back, but took with them all of the riches and slaves they had acquired.  The expedition of Aelius Gallus proved disastrous, as the movement of the army depended on a guide named Syllaeus, who deliberately misdirected them, costing them months of marching.  When they finally reached the capital city of Ma'rib, Sabean, Gallus' siege lasted only a week before he was forced to withdraw due to a combination of disease, the harsh desert climate, and the over-extension of supply lines.  That's basically the trifecta of reasons behind a larger army's retreat.  The Roman navy did better, occupying and then destroying the port of Eudaemon, thus securing the naval merchant trade route to India through the Red Sea, which was no small yams.   Having failed utterly at bringing the Kushite's to heel, Gallus lost his Prefect job to Publius Petronius, who then took his legions and marched directly into Kushite territory, looting and pillaging villages and towns before finally reaching the capital of Napata in 23 BC.  The Kushites attempted to get their own back with a siege of Primis, but Petronius broke through.  It was at this point that the Kushites sued for peace.  You might be thinking that Rome had Kush on the back foot and this was a desperate surrender to save their skins.  Well you can put that out of your mind right now.  The Kushites *did send negotiators to Augustus in 21 BC and a peace treaty *was negotiated, but it was remarkably very favorable to the Kushites.  Rome would pull its soldiers from the southern region called the Thirty-Mile Strip, including the city of Primis,  and the Kushites were exempt from paying tribute.  More importantly, they had managed to secure their autonomy and remain free from Roman occupation.  When have you ever heard of Rome, or any conquering army, giving terms like that?  That leads historians and armchair historians alike, myself included, to conclude that Rome was shaking in their sandals at the prospect of having to continue to fight Amanirena and her warriors on their home turf.  It was worth giving up whole cities and forgoing tribute to stop being beaten by them.    Although the Kushites had managed to retain their independence, Rome's monopoly on Mediterranean trade plus their newly established trade route to India, greatly diminished Kush's economic influence during the 1st and 2nd century CE.  The rising Kingdom of Axum in Ethiopia managed to push the Kushites out of the Red Sea trade which led to even further decline that resulted in the Axumites invading the kingdom and sacking Meroë around 350 AD and that was pretty much that for the kingdom of Kush.  But I've saved my favorite part of Amanirenas' story for last: the souvenir.  When Kush troops moved through an area that had already been conquered by Rome, the warriors would destroy anything Roman that they found, chiefly buildings and statues.  With Augustus being emperor, there were a lot of statues of him about and the Kushites said “get rekt, son” to every last one of them.  The head of one bronze statue was taken back to Meroe, where it was discovered during an archeological dig in 1912, positioned directly below the feet of a Kushite monarch on a wall mural.  Apart from the sick burn, the head was also significant for being the only head of a statue of Augustus ever found that still had the bright white inlays for the eyes, so when you look at it, link in the show notes, Augustus looks like he's permanently, perpetually surprised to have been beaten by a widowed queen with one eye.   MIDROLL   While I'd happily humor debate, especially over a pint and a basket of fries, I'll stake my position Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar is the bloodiest queen in world history.  People should think of her, not Lady MacBeth or Elizabeth Bathory, when they need an icon for ‘woman with blood on her hands.'  From the start of her reign, she tortured and killed her rivals and presided over the untold suffering of her own people.  In those 33 years, while also successfully repelling European attempts to dominate the country, her orders reduced the population of Madagascar by half, or *more.     Born with a commoner with the name Rabodoandrianampoinimerina in 1778, Princess Ranavalona found upward mobility quickly when her father helped foil an assassination plot being assembled by the king's uncle.  As a reward, King Andrianampoinimerina (y'all should see these names) betrothed Ranavalona to his son and heir Prince Ra and declared that any child from this union would be first in the line of succession after Radama.  Talk about a glow-up.  Ranavalona wasn't the only wife, nor was she the favorite, though at least she was the first, and it probably didn't help their relationship when Radama became king and immediately executed all potential rivals, as was the custom, which included some of Ranavalona's relatives.  When Radama died in 1828, possibly of syphilis, possibly of poison, having not managed to get one child from his dozen wives,  according to local custom, the rightful heir was Rakotobe, the eldest son of Radama's eldest sister.    Rakatobe was considered to be intelligent, as he was the first people to have studied at the first school established by the London mission, which also made him sympathetic to the ambitions and efforts of the European missionaries and businessmen who sought to establish themselves on the island.  R was still a threat, though, as any child she bore would be the heir before Rakatobe, so she had to go.  The military supported R and helped to secure her place on the throne.  Rakatobe, his family, and supporters were put to death, the men with spears and the women starved in prison.  R then ceremonially bathed in the blood of a ceremonial bull.  For anyone who wants a sense of how the rest of this story is going to go, that sets the tone pretty accurately.    At her coronation, she gave a warning to those who would seek to undermine her authority.  “Never say ‘she is only a feeble and ignorant woman, how can she rule such a vast empire?' I will rule here to the good fortune of my people and the glory of my name, I will worship no gods, but those of my ancestors, the ocean shall be the boundary of my realm, and I will not cede the thickness of one hair of my realm.”  So Rana woke up this morning and chose violence, huh?  The late king had attempted to modernize the military by building modern forts and cribbing Napoleonic tactics.  To achieve this, he'd signed treaties with the British and French for supplies and arms, as well as allowing Christian missions to be built.  In turn, the European powers sought to establish dominance over the nation, which is information I will find under W for ‘Who could ever have foreseen that comma sarcastic.'  From the very beginning of her reign, Rona walked that back,ending treaties with the British and restricting the activities of the missions, just little stuff like banning the teaching of Christianity in the missionary schools.  Three years into her reign, King Charles the 10th of France ordered the invasion of Madagascar, but the malaria and political strife back home forced them to pack it in, a big check in Rana's win column.  But just for good measure, she ordered the heads of the dead French soldiers to be placed on spikes along the beaches.  The Queen soon turned her attention to her Christian subjects and a few European missionaries and traders who remained.  If you were caught practicing Christianity. you could expect to be beaten and hundreds were arrested.  Once imprisoned, they face torture and starvation, which beats being hung from a cliff and left to die of exposure in the tropical heat.  Whatever horrific fate they chose for you, your family had to watch.  Rana was not a nice lady, I really can't stress that enough.  Though there were some Christians who kept themselves to themselves and managed to outlive her.     If you were up on charges of treason, you'd face an ordeal by food.  You'd be forced to eat three servings of chicken skin and a poisonous nute from the tangena tree.  If you threw up all of the chicken, and just the chicken, you were free to go.  But it you didn't vomit up all three pieces, you'd be executed, or probably dead from the poison, six of one.  For every other crime, you'll be treated to a nice boiling, either water or oil, depending on the day, or, and here's a phrase, incremental dismemberment.  Queen Rana, I should mention, also did away with trial by jury, because that was a European thing.     Whilst the Queen was fiercely anti European,she was very much aware of her need to modernize.  Madagascar needed industry of its own.  In 1831, a French industrialist and adventurer named Jean Laborde presented himself to the queen after he found himself shipwrecked on Madagascar.  Labardi was soon made the chief engineer to the court, and possibly father of Rana's son Rakoto, charged with building a giant factory to turn out cannons, weapons, soap, ceramics and cement, with the “help” of 20,000 enslaved laborers.  Her military was paid by the kingdom, but not well, but they had a benefit to offset that – official permission to pillage, loot, and extract any value from her subjects.     In 1845, new laws meant that all foreigners on the island would be forced to take part in the public work, many were able to leave Madagascar to avoid such servitude, but the people who lived there weren't so lucky.  These works were usually performed by slaves or by those who hadn't paid their taxes and would find themselves in bondage for the remainder of their lives.  That may not be too long, when you consider how many people they literally worked to death, tens of thousands.  Per year.  To make sure there would always be enough expendable labor in Madagascar, Queen Rana abolished the export of enslaved people.  Importing them, still A-ok.     The public works were bad enough, but the enslaved could never have imagined the horror that would come with the 1845 buffalo hunt.  Have you ever heard of the extravagant boar or deer hunting expeditions/parties of ye olde times and thought they sounded completely extra and nuts?  They look like a carpool to the grocery store in comparison.  The Queen ordered the royal court to embark on a buffalo hunt through the malaria infested swamps and jungles.  In order to allow the royal party to travel more comfortably, some 20,000 forced laborers were sent into the jungles to build a road.  Not a road to one place or between two places, a road that existed solely for this trip.  An estimated 10,000 enslaved men, women and children died due to disease and the harsh conditions.  Mosquitos and bacteria have no care for rank and many of their 50,000 strong hunting party would die in the jungles.  I mean, it was still *mainly servants and slaves dying.  who died by the end of the hunting trip.  And how many innocent buffalo got wiped out in this boondogle debacle? [sfx paper rustling] Let me check.  In round figures, zero.  [in different languages]  1000s died on a buffalo hunt that killed no buffalo, all because the Queen wanted to go on a buffalo hunt.    It is not surprising that many within the Queen's Own court were eager to dispose of her, but the closest anyone got was when her Son Rakoto gave French businessman Joseph-François Lambert exclusive rights to the lumber, minerals, lumber and unused land on the 4th largest island in the world.  All Lambert had to do on his end was get rid of the Queen and make room for Prince Rakoto to become King Radama II.  Lambert attempted to obtain support from the French and British governments, to no avail.  In 1855, the Prince wrote in secret to Napoleon III of France, but Boni III left him on read.  It was not until 1857 that the coup was actually attempted and you might surmise by my use of the word “attempted” that it did not work.  Queen Rana responded by expelling all Europeans from Madagascar and seizing all of their assets.  With their oppressors gone, the enslaved worked in the factories burned those mothers down.  The prince faced no consequences and his actions were downplayed, as though he had been led astray by smooth-talking Europeans eager to exploit their country.    Speaking of no consequences, Queen Ranavalona I died peacefully in her sleep at the impressive-even-today age of 83. While she was one of the few African rulers to keep Europe at bay, but more than half million suffered and died during her 33 year rule.  Per her orders, the country entered into the official mourning period.  The bloodiest queen in history was dead, but she wasn't off-brand.  12,000 zebu cattle were slaughtered, though the meat was distributed to the people; and during the burial, a stray spark ignited a barrel of gunpowder destined for use in the ceremony, which caused an explosion and fire that destroyed many of the surrounding buildings and killed many people.   And that's… The Hausa Queen Amina reigned spectacularly for 34 years, winning wars, enlarging her territory, introducing kola nut cultivation and metal armor, and making sure her traders had safe passage throughout the Sahara region.  Today, she is remembered not only for her bravery, but also for building fortification walls called “ganuwar Amina” around her cities.  Remember…Thanks..   Sources: https://www.pulse.ng/bi/lifestyle/7-most-powerful-african-queens-in-history-you-need-to-know/dwhncf5 https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/amanirenas https://artsandculture.google.com/story/queen-amanirenas-the-story-of-the-white-nile-nubi-archeress/bALSN3WTK_YEJA https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/Who-Was-the-One-Eyed-Queen-Who-Defeated-Caesar https://face2faceafrica.com/article/amanirenas-the-brave-one-eyed-african-queen-who-led-an-army-against-the-romans-in-24bc https://historyofyesterday.com/madagascars-mad-queen-that-you-ve-never-heard-of-25e27ebe121d https://www.madamagazine.com/en/die-schreckensherrschaft-ranavalonas-i/ https://oldnaija.com/2019/11/06/moremi-ajasoro-history-of-the-brave-queen-of-ile-ife/ https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/queen-moremi-did-you-know-about-the-courageous-legend-whose-statue-is-the-tallest-in/hr4llg4 https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/hausa-queen-amina-51267.php TikTok: https://africanpoems.net/modern-poetry-in-oral-manner/moremi-ajasoro/  

(01:15) Part I: Law of the Day - "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD." (Lev. 19:18) (11:05) Part II: Today I look at some historical examples of lesser magistrates. First, I discuss Jehoiada from 2 Kings 11 and his resistance to Athaliah the usurper. Second, I consider the Roman Governor Publius Petronius and his resistance to Emperor Caligula. Both men had no guarantee of success, yet they stood firm in the face of tyranny and certain death, not out of a sense of rebellion, but in order to do the right thing. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

(01:15) Part I: Law of the Day - "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD." (Lev. 19:18) (11:05) Part II: Today I look at some historical examples of lesser magistrates. First, I discuss Jehoiada from 2 Kings 11 and his resistance to Athaliah the usurper. Second, I consider the Roman Governor Publius Petronius and his resistance to Emperor Caligula. Both men had no guarantee of success, yet they stood firm in the face of tyranny and certain death, not out of a sense of rebellion, but in order to do the right thing. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

这个自带氛围的节日又来了。本期圣诞特别节目，《世界莫名其妙物语》主播见师、《杯弓舌瘾》主播钱老板和跳岛主播肖一之，为您献上一份精彩的不正宗圣诞指南。圣诞缘何而起？丑毛衣、平安果、冷笑话表演，哪种圣诞习俗最不靠谱？热红酒和红烧肉有什么隐秘的关联？狄更斯、可口可乐与生活方式博主，究竟是谁“发明”了圣诞节？ 谁知道呢？在寒冷冬日，多讲几个冷笑话，或许是比咕噜咕噜冒泡泡的花式甜酒更有效的取暖妙招。即便知道自己家并没有供圣诞老人爬进来的烟囱顶，从吃火鸡的维多利亚劳工到吃炸鸡的日本青年，从懒得摘星星灯的美国家庭到装点圣诞树的独居青年，每个人仍然会不由自主地期待这个说不清来源的节日。 穿上圣诞毛衣，互送圣诞礼物。狄更斯让我们知道，这个特殊的日子可以成为一个表达善意的契机。在节日的欢愉气氛中，我们或许可以短暂忘记生活的隔膜、劳累与窗外的寒冷，像三位主播一样，和你的朋友、家人坐在某一处，用礼物、声音和怀抱，共同温暖年末的这一个时刻。 【本期嘉宾】 见师，大学教师，《世界莫名其妙物语》主播。 钱老板，《杯弓舌瘾》主播。 【本期主持】 肖一之，文学研究者，上海外国语大学英语学院讲师。 【时间轴】 02:23 成都路人互锤，北京送平安果，日本平安夜吃炸鸡？各地特色圣诞活动大赏 05:52 印象里整个西方都过圣诞节，但其实教派之间也有差别 16:24 圣诞老人的红白配色，居然是可口可乐的发明 18:52 圣诞节就该坐在一块开会讲冷笑话，比如下面这几个…… 26:42 热红酒跟红烧肉的原理差不多，此外还有无数种DIY方法 39:56 大家怎么过圣诞？活动大盘点：丑毛衣、手写卡片、圣诞装饰 46:23 《圣诞颂歌》如何做到深入人心并“发明”了圣诞文化？ 【节目中提到的人物和作品】 和圣诞有关的电影： 《真爱至上》（Love Actually，2003），可以作为饮酒游戏使用 《圣诞发明家》（The Man Who Invented Christmas，2017），改编自同名非虚构类历史题材作品，讲述了狄更斯创作《圣诞颂歌》的故事，电影版由丹·史蒂文斯主演 《火钳酒》（Die Feuerzangenbowle，1944），德国经典喜剧电影。 圣诞节除了热红酒还可以喝： 热苹果酒（wassail），英国老百姓喜爱的冬日饮料； 热托迪（hot toddy），可以暖身子，不可以防治新冠肺炎； 蛋酒（eggnog），甜过冰淇淋，美国人民最爱； 36:07 火焰朗姆酒（Feuerzangenbowle），19世纪以来德国最著名的冬季饮料之一，一种具有朗姆酒和草本植物口味的热红酒。 43:23 罗兰·希尔爵士，英国邮政改革家、邮票创始人。其发明邮票的故事《美丽的集邮册》曾收录于北师大出版社四年级上册语文教材中。 62:08 Ghost of Christmas present，《圣诞颂歌》中的一个章节，插图由John Leech所画，本章节插图中首次出现了早期圣诞老人的雏形：一个穿着绿色长袍的圣诞幽灵。 狄更斯《荒凉山庄》《匹克威克外传》 世界莫名奇妙物语节目《世界人民吃火鸡！》 牛姐Mariah Carey圣诞金曲《All I Want for Christmas Is You》 【本期推荐作品】 见师 推荐 The Satyricon by Petronius 这是一本古罗马的讽刺故事集，情节有点像《欲望都市》，两位男主角是主仆关系，旅游途中遇到了各种各样的人，发生了各种各样的关系，最后发现真爱还是彼此。 钱老板 推荐 “哈利·波特”系列 J.K.罗琳 著 很奇怪，巫师同样会过圣诞节。书中哈利每年圣诞节都会收到礼物，比如罗恩的妈妈莫丽会给他打毛衣、小天狼星会给他送扫帚，但往往节日一过，就开始发生很多可怕的事情。圣诞像是每一本书的转折点。 肖一之 推荐 《圣诞颂歌》狄更斯 著 邓嘉宛 译 最近重看了一遍《圣诞颂歌》，这不仅仅是一个简单的道德故事，当中还涉及了18世纪40年代英国贫富差距背景下导致的社会道德危机，有许多细节，非常有意思。 【出品人】蔡欣 【主理人】猫弟 【节目编辑】何润哲 黄鱼 【后期制作】AURA.pote 孙称 【音乐】 片头 上海复兴方案 - Queen of Sports 片尾 上海复兴方案 - Spring in a Small Town 【视觉设计】孙晓曦 王尊一 - 互动方式 - 商务合作：contact@justpod.fm 微博：@杯弓舌瘾TipsyProof 微信公众号：杯弓舌瘾 微博：@JustPod @播客一下 微信公众号：JustPod / 播客一下 小红书：杯弓舌瘾 / JustPod气氛组

这个自带氛围的节日又来了。本期圣诞特别节目，《世界莫名其妙物语》主播见师、《杯弓舌瘾》主播钱老板和跳岛主播肖一之，为您献上一份精彩的不正宗圣诞指南。圣诞缘何而起？丑毛衣、平安果、冷笑话表演，哪种圣诞习俗最不靠谱？热红酒和红烧肉有什么隐秘的关联？狄更斯、可口可乐与生活方式博主，究竟是谁“发明”了圣诞节？ 谁知道呢？在寒冷冬日，多讲几个冷笑话，或许是比咕噜咕噜冒泡泡的花式甜酒更有效的取暖妙招。即便知道自己家并没有供圣诞老人爬进来的烟囱顶，从吃火鸡的维多利亚劳工到吃炸鸡的日本青年，从懒得摘星星灯的美国家庭到装点圣诞树的独居青年，每个人仍然会不由自主地期待这个说不清来源的节日。 穿上圣诞毛衣，互送圣诞礼物。狄更斯让我们知道，这个特殊的日子可以成为一个表达善意的契机。在节日的欢愉气氛中，我们或许可以短暂忘记生活的隔膜、劳累与窗外的寒冷，像三位主播一样，和你的朋友、家人坐在某一处，用礼物、声音和怀抱，共同温暖年末的这一个时刻。 【本期嘉宾】 见师，大学教师，《世界莫名其妙物语》主播。 钱老板，《杯弓舌瘾》主播。 【本期主持】 肖一之，文学研究者，上海外国语大学英语学院讲师。 【时间轴】 02:23 成都路人互锤，北京送平安果，日本平安夜吃炸鸡？各地特色圣诞活动大赏 05:52 印象里整个西方都过圣诞节，但其实教派之间也有差别 16:24 圣诞老人的红白配色，居然是可口可乐的发明 18:52 圣诞节就该坐在一块开会讲冷笑话，比如下面这几个…… 26:42 热红酒跟红烧肉的原理差不多，此外还有无数种DIY方法 39:56 大家怎么过圣诞？活动大盘点：丑毛衣、手写卡片、圣诞装饰 46:23 《圣诞颂歌》如何做到深入人心并“发明”了圣诞文化？ 【节目中提到的人物和作品】 和圣诞有关的电影：《真爱至上》（Love Actually，2003），可以作为饮酒游戏使用； 《圣诞发明家》（The Man Who Invented Christmas，2017），改编自同名非虚构类历史题材作品，讲述了狄更斯创作《圣诞颂歌》的故事，电影版由丹·史蒂文斯主演；《火钳酒》（Die Feuerzangenbowle，1944），德国经典喜剧电影。 圣诞节除了热红酒还可以喝：热苹果酒（wassail），英国老百姓喜爱的冬日饮料； 热托迪（hot toddy），可以暖身子，不可以防治新冠肺炎； 蛋酒（eggnog），甜过冰淇淋，美国人民最爱。 36:07 火焰朗姆酒（Feuerzangenbowle），19世纪以来德国最著名的冬季饮料之一，一种具有朗姆酒和草本植物口味的热红酒。 43:23 罗兰·希尔爵士，英国邮政改革家、邮票创始人。其发明邮票的故事《美丽的集邮册》曾收录于北师大出版社四年级上册语文教材中。 62:08 Ghost of Christmas present，《圣诞颂歌》中的一个章节，插图由John Leech所画，本章节插图中首次出现了早期圣诞老人的雏形：一个穿着绿色长袍的圣诞幽灵。 狄更斯《荒凉山庄》《匹克威克外传》 世界莫名奇妙物语节目《世界人民吃火鸡！》 牛姐Mariah Carey圣诞金曲《All I Want for Christmas Is You》 【本期推荐作品】 见师 推荐 The Satyricon by Petronius 这是一本古罗马的讽刺故事集，情节有点像《欲望都市》，两位男主角是主仆关系，旅游途中遇到了各种各样的人，发生了各种各样的关系，最后发现真爱还是彼此。 钱老板 推荐 “哈利·波特”系列 J.K.罗琳 著 很奇怪，巫师同样会过圣诞节。书中哈利每年圣诞节都会收到礼物，比如罗恩的妈妈莫丽会给他打毛衣、小天狼星会给他送扫帚，但往往节日一过，就开始发生很多可怕的事情。圣诞像是每一本书的转折点。 肖一之 推荐 《圣诞颂歌》狄更斯 著 邓嘉宛 译 最近重看了一遍《圣诞颂歌》，这不仅仅是一个简单的道德故事，当中还涉及了18世纪40年代英国贫富差距背景下导致的社会道德危机，有许多细节，非常有意思。 【出品人】蔡欣 【主理人】猫弟 【节目编辑】何润哲 黄鱼 【后期制作】AURA.pote 【音乐】 片头 上海复兴方案 - Queen of Sports 片尾 上海复兴方案 - Spring in a Small Town 【视觉设计】孙晓曦 王尊一

John J. Miller is joined by Kyle Harper of the University of Oklahoma to discuss Petronius's 'The Satyricon.'

This is simultaneously an excavation of both Imperial Rome and late 60's Italian cinema. Joined by the amazing Sarah E. Bond and Gregory Hays, we dig into Frederico Fellini's dreamlike, even frenetic, adaptation of the Satyricon by Petronius. This is a film which has a lot of offer when it comes to classical reception. In lieu of 'historically accuracy' (if we care about such things), Fellini presents us with a fantastical and at times unnerving vision of ancient Rome. In some ways, Fellini Satyricon is the true embodiment of how we receive both Petronius' work and the ancient world at large: fragmentary, perplexing and often unknowable. Final Verdict (courtesy of SEB): Watch more movies! Care less about accuracy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is simultaneously an excavation of both Imperial Rome and late 60's Italian cinema. Joined by the amazing Sarah E. Bond and Gregory Hays, we dig into Frederico Fellini's dreamlike, even frenetic, adaptation of the Satyricon by Petronius. This is a film which has a lot of offer when it comes to classical reception. In lieu of 'historically accuracy' (if we care about such things), Fellini presents us with a fantastical and at times unnerving vision of ancient Rome. In some ways, Fellini Satyricon is the true embodiment of how we receive both Petronius' work and the ancient world at large: fragmentary, perplexing and often unknowable. Final Verdict (courtesy of SEB): Watch more movies! Care less about accuracy!

Quo Vadis, una de romanos, de las que veíamos en televisión cada Semana Santa. Esta colosal superproducción de la Metro fue dirigida por el sobrio Mervyn Leroy. Se rodeó de profesionales tan capaces como el fotógrafo Robert Surtees, el editor de montaje Ralph Winters o el director artístico Cedric Gibbons. Espectáculo, épica y drama en technicolor. El esplendor del Imperio romano. Lo primero que me viene a la cabeza al recordar Quo Vadis es el emperador Nerón, soberbio y teatral Peter Ustinov, declama versos con su lira en ristre, abyecto y pueril, le dice al prefecto de la guardia, Tigelino – Ralph Truman-, que ojalá la multitud tuviera una sola garganta para poder cortarla de un solo tajo. Nerón y su quejumbrosa voz, él la considera digna de un genio, la expresión de Séneca, Petronius, y demás comitiva lo dice todo, cara de circunstancias y alabanzas al peligroso artista que decidirá incendiar la ciudad para crear una nueva Roma, ésta se llamará Nerópolis, en su honor El sereno Petronius, consejero del César , estupendo el británico Lou Genn, sabe como ganarse a Nerón desde el más profundo y oculto desprecio. Y mientras tanto el legado Marcus Vinicio regresa de sus campañas en Britania para embelesarse con una cristiana, de nombre Ligia, este complicado romance entre una cristiana y un soldado romano será el motor del bello peplum rodado en Cinecittá. Un film donde los personajex femeninos propulsan la acción, y son las más puras de espíritu, con la excepción de la pérfida Popea, por supuesto – Patricia Laffan- que domina a su antojo a Nerón y se pasea por las dependencias de palacio con dos majestuosos guepardos. Quo Vadis , Adónde vas? ¿Adónde vas Ligia?. Su lucha interna – delicada y pura Deborah Kerr-, entre su deseo por el brusco comandante Marco Vinicio -Robert Taylor- y su fe hacia la palabra de Cristo. El soldado romano también experimentará su particular proceso de transformación, verá la luz, tras escuchar el sermón del apostol Pedro, prendado por las trenzas rubias y las caderas de la cristiana. Esta noche esperamos que Nerón levante el pulgar hacia arriba... Zacarias Cotán, Raúl Gallego y Salvador Limón

Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc on the ancient Roman novel "The Satyricon" and applies Petronius' ideas to modern culture. First, VDH has a few words on General Milley's recent testimony.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's werewolf time on the Ancients! In this episode Exeter University's Professor Daniel Ogden highlights how these mythical creatures have their origins in ancient times and thrived in a story world shared by witches, ghosts, demons and dragons. Join Tristan and Daniel as they shine a light on werewolf (or werewolf-related) stories that survive from antiquity. From Homer's Circe to Petronius' Satyricon. Also making an appearance is the Strix-Witch, a Roman phenomenon and persistent feature of their folklore. Daniel's new book, The Werewolf in the Ancient World, is out now.For behind the scenes and extra Ancients, follow Tristan on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ancientstristan/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daisy Dunn, historian and biographer of Catullus and Pliny, sets our scene in ancient Rome and Greece, entertaining the Slightly Foxed team with literature of love and war, satire and myth, and amplifying echoes of the classics through the ages. We begin with Homer’s monsters and memorials of fallen men, then take a tour of the ancient world, from Catullus’ erotic poetry and Lysistrata’s sex strike to the eruption of Vesuvius and Suetonius’ lives of extraordinary emperors. In a more contemporary turn, F. Scott Fitzgerald borrows Gatsby from the Satyricon, and Mary Renault writes historical novels and lovers’ names in wine. And there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading from off the beaten track. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 54 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:jess@foxedquarterly.com) with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/daisy-dunn-catullus-bedspread/) , Daisy Dunn In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/daisy-dunn-in-the-shadow-of-vesuvius/) , Daisy Dunn The Odyssey (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/emily-wilson-homer-odyssey/) , Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (7:57) The Iliad (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/e-v-rieu-homer-iliad/) , Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu (8:08) Homer on Life and Death, Jasper Griffin is out of print (9:02) The Silence of the Girls (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/pat-barker-silence-of-the-girls/) , Pat Barker (11:01) Memorial (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/alice-oswald-memorial/) , Alice Oswald (11:42) The Last of the Wine (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mary-renault-the-last-of-the-wine/) , Mary Renault (16:37) The Twelve Caesars (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/suetonius-twelve-caesars-robert-graves/) , Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves (19:07) I, Claudius (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/robert-graves-i-claudius/) , Robert Graves (21:00)  Pompei (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/robert-harris-pompeii/) , Robert Harris (22:15)  The Satyricon (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/petronius-satyricon/) , Petronius, translated by P. G. Walsh (23:48) The Great Gatsby (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/f-scott-fitzgerald-the-great-gatsby/) , F. Scott Fitzgerald (24:47) Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman and post-Roman novels (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/rosemary-sutcliff-classic-childrens-books/) , Slightly Foxed Cubs (28:19) Candide (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/voltaire-candide/) , Voltaire (34:26) When the Lights Go Out (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/carys-bray-when-the-lights-go-out/) , Carys Bray (35:27)  The Diary of a Provincial Lady (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/e-m-delafield-diary-of-a-provincial-lady/) , E. M. Delafield (37:03)  The Emperor’s Babe (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/bernadine-evaristo-the-emperors-babe) , Bernadine Evaristo (37:40) Related Slightly Foxed Articles How Homer Taught Me to Read (https://foxedquarterly.com/homer-odyssey-and-iliad-literary-review/) , Adrian Thorpe on Homer, Odyssey and Iliad, Issue 30 Hadrian to the Life (https://foxedquarterly.com/marguerite-yourcenar-memoirs-of-hadrian-literary-review/) , Caroline Chapman on Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, Issue 2 (21:42) Scaling Gibbon’s Everest (https://foxedquarterly.com/richard-crockett-edward-gibbon-literary-review/) , Richard Crockatt on Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Issue 68 Travels with the Father of History (https://foxedquarterly.com/herodotus-histories-literary-review/) , Justin Marozzi on Herodotus, Histories, Issue 20 Brave Old World (https://foxedquarterly.com/lawrence-sail-voltaire-candide-literary-review/) , Lawrence Sail on Voltaire, Candide, Issue 10 (34:26) Other Links Daisy Dunn (http://www.daisydunn.co.uk/) The Greek Play (https://www.cambridgegreekplay.com/) , Cambridge (28:27) Gladstone’s Library (https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/) (31:37) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Choppy Tuesday in the markets today as huge gains are lost toward the end of the trading session. The S&P 500 gained 0.4% and the Nasdaq moved 1%. The DJIA fell, giving up an over 230-point gain and trading just below the open Crude oil prices jump 2.75% off of nearly 25% of GOM shut in due to Hurricane Sally. Shell said Sept. 15 it shut in production at its Appomattox platform, while also curtailing oil volumes at its large Olympus, Mars and Ursa facilities. Chevron said it has shuttered production at its Blind Faith and Petronius platforms in the deepwater US Gulf. US Shale News Lonestar files Chapter 11 Hurricane Sally Shutting In around 27% of GOM production International Petrobras in talks with SBM Offshore for largest oil production unit in Brazil

Discusses the new partnership with John and the chances of PETRONIUS in Race 3 at Randwick today

Great NT Profiles Part 19Homework Tips Checklist for ParentsTHE CENTURIONSRelated Scriptures:Ø Luke 7:1-10; Matthew 27:54; Acts 10:1-7• All the scenes of the NT lie in the heart of the Roman Empire.• Centurions are Roman army officers of prestigious rank and authority.• There are several centurions mentioned in the New Testament:• The one who came to seek the aid of Christ for his slave (Lk 7:1-10)• The one at the cross (Matthew 27:54//Mark 15:39)• Cornelius in the book of Acts (Acts 10:1-7)• The ones in relation to Paul (Acts 22:25-29; 23:23)• Julius was responsible for taking Paul to Rome (Acts 27:1-28:16)The Danger of Christians in the First Century• Especially for Gentiles, affiliating with the church would cause cultural and familial disruption.• Gentiles (especially of the upper classes) would no longer be able to participate in symposia or banquets where “idol meat” was served or libations poured.• Charges of incest and cannibalism might be expected, along with accusations of treason and misanthropy.• The proclamation of Jesus as a “king” would appear politically threatening.The Roman Army and the Pax Romana• The principal unit outside of Rome was the legion (see Mark 5:1– 20), with a complement of 5,500 to 6,000 men (Roman citizens).• In addition to legions, Rome employed auxiliary troops, often comprised of conscripts.• The centurion was the presiding officer over a “century,” which normally consisted of 80 men, not 100.• The centurions, who may be compared to commanders today, had judicial and administrative, as well as military, responsibilities.• Centurions also functioned in the auxiliary troops. Some were soldiers who rose through the ranks; others transferred from the legions.The Healed Servant or Son• The Capernaum centurion is a non-Jew who seeks healing for a “child” (or “servant”) – Matt. 8:5-13; Luke 7:2-10; John 4:46-54).• In Luke 7:2-10, the centurion is a God-fearer who loves the Jewish people.• In this account the healing is done from a distance.• John 4:46-54 refers only to a “royal official” in Capernaum, but the plot is similar.• In this account, the miracle serves as a sign of Jesus’ power and prompts belief.The Centurion at the Cross• In Mark 15:39, the centurion sees Jesus die and proclaims, “Truly this man was a son of God.”• In Matt. 27:54, “When the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, ‘Truly this man was a son of God.’”• In Luke 23:47, “When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, ‘Certainly this man was innocent/righteous.’”• In the apocryphal Letter of Pilate to Herod, the centurion, named Longinus, accompanies Procla to Galilee to witness the teaching of the resurrected Jesus. The Gospel of Peter mentions a centurion named Petronius, who is sent by Pilate to guard the tomb.Cornelius• Cornelius is the subject of Acts’ longest single narrative (10:1–11:18).• He was “pious/faithful and fearing God with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people, and serving God through all” (10:2). Like the centurion in Luke 7, he is a model “God-fearer” and “righteous Gentile.”• Angels announce to Cornelius that his “prayers and charitable deeds” are known in heaven and command that he fetch Simon (Peter) from Joppa.The Giving of the Spirit• While Peter is speaking the Holy Spirit fell on those hearing the word (10:44)• Peter repeats the story for the Jerusalem contingent (11:1-18) and hints at it at the Apostolic Council (Acts 15:7-11).Legendary Development• “The centurion who pierces Jesus’ side in John is assimilated to the centurion who confesses him “Son of God” in Mark and Matthew. Named Longinus, he is, according to legend, martyred at Caesarea in Cappadocia in 58.• In Thomas B. Chastain’s “The Robe,” the centurion (identified as a tribune named Marcellus; in the movie version, played by Richard Burton) becomes a believer who is eventually martyred by Nero.

A group of freedmen at a party demand a story, and get an exciting tale set on the night of a full moon... I'm delighted to be joined on this episode by Dr Liz Gloyn, from Royal Holloway University, to talk about ancient and modern werewolves, folklore, class and ghosts. This month's story comes from Petronius, Satyricon, 61-62.

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On this day in 455 C.E., Emperor Petronius Maximus tried to escape Germanic Vandals. However, his own subjects murdered him before the invaders got the chance.

Boccaccios "Decamerone" får ny relevans varje gång ord som epidemi och karantän är på tapeten. Torbjörn Elensky presenterar en fräck klassiker och funderar över var dagens nya berättelser tar form. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Strax innan Coronaepidemin bröt ut vintern 2020 satt jag med en grupp vänner och diskuterade vad som skulle bli kvar av vår kultur vid en världsomspännande katastrof. Vi pratade om hur man planerar att gömma konst, historiska föremål och andra artefakter i väldiga bergrum. Och vi diskuterade givetvis hur stora problemen skulle bli kring tolkningsfrågor, värderingen av verk och så vidare. Hur många kvinnor respektive män? Vilka kulturformer skulle prioriteras? Vilka hänsyn till så kallad representativitet kommer att tas i ett skarpt läge? Bortsett från exakt vilka verk som skulle bevaras kom vi överens om att det viktigaste, det som överlever alla civilisationers sammanbrott, är berättelserna. De historier vi roar varandra med, de som förmedlar minnet av historiska, personliga, komiska och tragiska händelser, både sanna och mytiska, skulle vi, helt utan annan teknisk utrustning, bära med oss vart vi än tvingas vandra. Och över dem kan ingen bestämma: de som väcker genklang, som är viktiga för oss, kommer att föras vidare, medan de andra glöms bort. Den klassiska skildringen av hur en grupp vänner drar sig undan världens sönderfall för att i trygg avskildhet fördriva dagarna med berättande är Giovanni Boccaccios "Decamerone", en av de självklara stora litterära klassikerna. Året är 1348, Florens härjas av pesten, döden är överallt, omväxlande med paniskt festande. Samhället har praktiskt taget kollapsat, då sju unga kvinnor träffas i en kyrka och bestämmer sig för att dra sig undan till en lantvilla för att njuta av lugnet, naturen och varandras umgänge. De bjuder också med tre unga män, som lämpligt nog råkar komma in i kyrkan. Så fördriver dessa tio vänner tio dagar med tio historier var, vilket gett oss hundra noveller. Pesten slog sönder det medeltida Europa. Givetvis var det en katastrof för alla som genomlevde den. Särskilt Italien, som inte var någon enad nation vid den tiden, men där de flesta av Europas rikaste stater och städer låg, drabbades. Feodalismen gick under i pesten. De gamla adelsfamiljerna miste inte bara sina lantarbetare utan många förlorade även egendomarna, till de nyrika som ägnade sig åt handel och bankväsende. Sådana som familjen Medici. Kyrkans makt minskade också. Allt detta beredde vägen för en ny tro på människan, nya rikedomar och faktiskt själva renässansen. Boccaccio beskriver denna öppning i tiden, då människan träder in på scenen i helfigur. "Decamerone" ger en direkt bild av vardagslivet i 1300-talets Toscana. I en tid då litteraturen dominerades av helgonlegender, riddarromaner och höviska diktverk, samt då man gärna använde klassiska förebilder och varierade välbekanta historier valde Boccaccio att skriva rakt av, på folkspråket, om sin egen samtid, i noveller fulla av social kritik, bedrägerier, många berättelser om fräcka präster och inte så lite sexuella äventyr, där inte minst historierna om listiga kvinnor som lurar sina makar för att kunna ligga med sina älskare är framträdande. De många kyrkliga dignitärerna i Decamerone är löjeväckande figurer som inte har mer makt över andra än över sig själva. Och sin egen kåthet och girighet behärskar de inte alls. Ingen av berättelserna skildrar de yttersta tingen eller hur någon högre makt ska döma oss för våra synder, utan enbart människor i relation till andra människor. Nya konstformer skapas genom kanoniseringen av låga konstformer, skrev den den ryske litteraturforskaren och Viktor Sjklovskij 1923. Det är lätt att inse att han har rätt, om man gör en snabb översikt över historien. Etablerad konst stelnar alltid förr eller senare och tappar den vitalitet som krävs, åtminstone i vår europeiska tradition, för att den ska vara angelägen för såväl folk som furstar. Och impulserna till nyskapande kommer inte sällan från det folkliga. Decamerone är ett tydligt exempel: en samling berättelser utan högre syfte än att underhålla, lagda i munnen på kvinnor, som talar fritt om sex och synd och falska präster. Decamerone må vara författad av en man, men det är kvinnornas bok. Visst hade Boccaccio litterära förebilder, men inte den högstämde Vergilius som hans äldre kollega Dante utsåg till sin guide genom inferno och vars Aeneid han ville överträffa med sin gudomliga komedi. Utan Apuleius, en prosaförfattare som var verksam på 100-talet e Kr och vars skabrösa roman Den gyllene åsnan skildrar allt tänkbart snusk och sex och groteskerier i form av berättelser infogade i en ramhandling. Där Boccaccios ramhandling utgörs av de unga vännernas stilla samvaro skildrar Apulejus hur huvudpersonen flänger runt förvandlad till åsna. Men det låga, det folkliga, har verken gemensamt. Totalt tre av de hundra novellerna i Decamerone går tillbaka på antika förebilder, två på Apuleius, och en på den lika folkligt burleska Satyricon, av den romerske författaren Petronius. En pandemi tvingar oss alla att ta nya hänsyn. Några drar sig tillbaka tillsammans, i självvald karantän, precis som de unga kvinnorna och männen i Florens 1348. Liksom till exempel somliga parisare i mars 2020 försökte ta sig till sina landställen, för att vaka ut karantänen på behörigt avstånd från storstadens hotande kaos. Men vad sysslar isolerade ungdomar med i vår högteknologiska tid? Och vilka är de konstformer som kommer att kanoniseras framöver? Den folkliga kreativiteten och berättelserna sprids mest via sociala medier i form av Tiktok-videor, memer och så vidare idag. Dessa tekniska möjligheter och inte minst de former de ger upphov till påverkar naturligtvis även litteraturen och konsten. Exempelvis finns det något fascinerande i memens form, där samma bild åtföljs av olika texter, och därmed får helt olika innebörd, fast hela tiden i ett sammanhang som skapas av memernas relation till varandra i nåt slags oändlig kedja av kollektiva associationer. Eller för den delen de omfattande sammanställningar av Tiktok- och vinevideor, superkorta filmsnuttar som ofta innehåller bisarra skämt, satir, rena slapsticken och variationer på teman, som är både självkommenterande och utåtriktade i närmast oändliga loopar. Viktor Sjklovskij skrev i anslutning till det tidigare citerade, att Konsten är, innerst inne, ironisk och destruktiv. Han uttryckte detta mitt i det kaos som följde åren efter den ryska revolutionen, då han mot alla odds envist arbetade vidare med sina litterära projekt, medan världen föll samman runt omkring honom. Men även om han påverkades av sin samtids katastrofala händelser hade han rätt i att konsten inte bara kan vara uppbygglig, tam, snäll och trösterik, inte om den ska vara verkligt angelägen för oss människor i vår osäkra tillvaro. Sex, maktmissbruk, lustiga sammanträffanden och bedrägerier, där den svagare sätter dit den starkare, roade oss i lika mycket i antikens Rom och medeltidens Florens som i vår samtid. Epidemier, pandemier och andra katastrofer kommer och går. Mänskligheten har hittills trots allt klarat sig. Och våra berättelser med oss. Torbjörn Elensky, författare

A fresh look at the ancient world. Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up comedian, brings the ancient world entertainingly up to date. In each of the four programmes she profiles a figure from ancient Greece or Rome and creates a stand-up routine around them. She then goes in search of the links which make the ancient world still very relevant in the 21st century. Episode 1: The worst dinner party in history. Natalie investigates the work of the writer Petronius, creator of the infamous Satyricon, later made into a film by Fellini. It's all about excess; as a vegetarian, Natalie's particularly revolted by the way in which the Romans insisted on making edible food look disgusting. With satirical cartoonist Martin Rowson, Fellini fan Richard Dyer and historian Victoria Rimell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

It’s interesting to think about the steady decline in expectations for our kids when it comes to reading. Sure, we want them to be able to read earlier than ever, but what about what they read? Not long ago, kids were taught Latin and Greek so they could read the classics...in their original languages. Think of Aesop’s Fables. Think of children being read Plutarch’s Lives by their parents. This is heavy stuff. And purposefully so. Because when you read old school books, what you’re really doing is acquainting yourself with the obscure yet illustrative figures from the ancient world while also displaying a willingness to wrestle with timeless and morally complex topics. There is a quote from George Orwell, which dates to the early 20th century, that illustrates how much things have changed. “Modern books for children are rather horrible things,” he said, “especially when you see them in the mass. Personally I would sooner give a child a copy of Petronius Arbiter than Peter Pan, but even Barrie seems manly and wholesome compared with some of his later imitators.”How many adults even know who Petronius is? (He was a writer who lived in the court of Nero). And how many adults today probably winced at the idea that a book should teach kids how to be manly? Even the idea of wholesomeness is controversial! Wholesome according to whom? The white male patriarchy? The west? The Judeo-Christian tradition? This is how the discussion devolves these days. Is it any surprise then that the children and young adult sections of today’s bookstores are filled with so much infantilizing escapism, fantastical melodrama, ie just plain absurd nonsense? The curmudgeons among us want to blame millennials and Gen Z for this. Their laziness and faltering tastes are why we’re awash in this stuff. But do you really believe our kids are dumber than the kids of Orwell’s time? Or back before that? Of course not! They’re kids. We’re the problem. Parents. Adults. Educators. Publishers. As a collective, we’ve stopped believing our kids are capable of reading challenging books. So we provide them without “kids editions” and give them silly picture books, instead of helping the build their reading muscles, and then we wonder why they can’t handle heavy stuff. Well stop it. Push them. Push yourself. They aren’t babies. Or at least they shouldn’t be after they’ve learned to read for themselves.

Halloween: Tales told at dinner, long ago, yet to give you the creeps tonight. Enjoy your walk home in the dark. -The Voice before the Void “Witches and a Werewolf” from Satyricon Petronius translated from the Latin by W.C. Firebaugh … Continue reading →

Hac parte vitam et opera Petronii scriptoris tractanda suscipio.

Author Salman Rushdie joins David Olusoga in the Penguin Studio. Salman’s 13 novels have won countless awards worldwide and his second novel ‘Midnight’s children’ won the Best of the Booker over its 40 year history. Salman talks about his latest novel, ’The Golden House’ bringing with him objects that inspired it, including a copy of The Satyricon by Petronius, and a photo of The Joker from Batman. #PenguinPodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the boys sit down with the hilarious Mike Roberts! The three talk about how much they love Lord of the Rings, what Madea would be like as Black Panther, and just how bad they hid Superman's mustache in Justice League before diving into this week's main event, Fellini Satyricon! This wonderfully bizarre work of art stars Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, and is directed by the legendary Federico Fellini. Listen, laugh, and enjoy as the three boys dissect the psychedelic masterpiece based on the ancient writings of Petronius.  Audio Master: Minotaur Slayer Christopher FordOriginal Music: Alan Loosbrock

Srovnání filmu Satyricon od Frederica Felliniho z roku 1969 s římským románem od Gaia Petronia 00:00-15:22 – Satyrikon – nevíme, kdo ho napsal, kde a kdy žil ani kde a kdy se odehrává 15:22-25:00 – Felliniho Satyricon – antická road movie s naolejovanými gayi 25:00-32:56 – Každý film má mít silný start, takže tady začínáme … Pokračovat ve čtení Film versus římský román – Satyricon/Satyrikon (1969, Fellini, Petronius) – Podcast Ante Portas

The Transmitters (Toby, Kristen, and Rudy) try to get to the bottom of the werewolf history, but find that it's very similar to the witch hunts! How do you become a werewolf? Was there a werewolf conspiracy? What is the legend of lycanthrope? Did werewolves exist? Are there Greek legends of werewolf? Can you fight off a werewolf and how? Were "werewolves" actually people with a disability? All this and more probably won't be answered as we... TRY TO EXPLAIN THE UNEXPLAINABLE! _______________________________________ We are proud members of the Dark Myths! Check out other great shows on DarkMyths.org Follow them on Twitter and Facebook for updates! #DarkMyths Twitter: @DarkMythsPods _______________________________________ Our show is available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn Radio, the Satchel app, and YouTube! Just search for "Secret Transmission Podcast" Please subscribe, rate, and review! Order a shirt to help support the show! http://teepublic.com/user/secrettransmission Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SecretTransmission Twitter: @secrettranspod https://twitter.com/secrettranspod Instagram: @secrettranspod https://www.instagram.com/secrettranspod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecretTransmissionPodcast/ Secret Transmission's Secret Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1437706986282724/?fref=mentions Email: secrettransmission@hotmail.com Voicemail: (304)602-7444 Thank you for listening! _______________________________________ Podcasts you should look up! Parlipod Project Archivist My Thing Can Beat Your Thing DeRailers ======================== Also Check Out: Cryptid Crate Twitter: @CryptidCrate https://twitter.com/CryptidCrate Website: http://www.cryptidcrate.com ______________________________________ SOME OF OUR SOURCES: --------------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHZjU7Hi0w http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-the-werewolf-legend https://www.historicmysteries.com/history-of-the-werewolf-legend/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuri https://www.thoughtco.com/the-werewolf-of-bedburg-2597445 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius http://www.werewolfpage.com/myths/grenier.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696RXqoeLk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdGzutS2hEc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_(Arcadia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdGzutS2hEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaeyR8QGQpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stumpp Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)

Petronius had big dreams, by day he was a loyal senator, helping Valentinian keep the empire ticking over, but by night: by night he was scheming and plotting and planning and cackling. He was going to rule the empire, and when he did, he would show them all! Nothing would stop him! He was not scared of anyone or anything! Sorry? Who are coming? The Vandals... oh. oh dear. 

What happens when a republic morphs into empire? What did it mean for the writers of Ancient Rome – and what would it mean for us today? Jacke Wilson takes a look at the current state of affairs in America and the Roman examples of Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, and Catullus.  You can find more literary discussion at jackewilson.com and more episodes of the series at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-361-494-5766). Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Drums of the Deep” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman Month continues with the 1969 film, Fellini Satyricon. Based loosely on the remaining fragments of Petronius's voluminous work, the film is a series of vignettes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman Month continues with the 1969 film, Fellini Satyricon. Based loosely on the remaining fragments of Petronius's voluminous work, the film is a series of vignettes.

Nero seems to have encouraged innovative art and architecture (including his own extravagant houses), and to have fostered literary achievement. But his 'Golden House' in particular proved unpopular, as it dominated Rome and gave rise to the rumour that Nero himself started the fire of 64 CE so that he could rebuild the city (and then blamed the Christians). Meanwhile the significant literary figures of his reign (Seneca, Lucan and Petronius), who were also members of Nero's imperial court, all fell from grace spectacularly and were forced to suicide. This lecture explores Neronian culture and the key elements of its artistic and literary output. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nero's subversive courtier, Petronius, is almost certainly the Petronius Arbiter who wrote the satirical work Satyricon, one of the most interesting and bizarre pieces of Roman literature which survives. This novel deals with the nefarious adventures and sexual exploits of three characters travelling through southern Italy, and unusually in Roman literature, primarily involves characters of low status. Freedmen are oftencentral, particularly in the ‘Dinner of Trimalchio' episode, which satirises the extraordinarily rich but uneducated and vulgar freedman, Trimalchio, whose tyrannical behaviour and aspirations to greatness have led some to see him as a satirical version of Nero himself. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nero's subversive courtier, Petronius, is almost certainly the Petronius Arbiter who wrote the satirical work Satyricon, one of the most interesting and bizarre pieces of Roman literature which survives. This novel deals with the nefarious adventures and sexual exploits of three characters travelling through southern Italy, and unusually in Roman literature, primarily involves characters of low status. Freedmen are oftencentral, particularly in the ‘Dinner of Trimalchio' episode, which satirises the extraordinarily rich but uneducated and vulgar freedman, Trimalchio, whose tyrannical behaviour and aspirations to greatness have led some to see him as a satirical version of Nero himself. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nero seems to have encouraged innovative art and architecture (including his own extravagant houses), and to have fostered literary achievement. But his 'Golden House' in particular proved unpopular, as it dominated Rome and gave rise to the rumour that Nero himself started the fire of 64 CE so that he could rebuild the city (and then blamed the Christians). Meanwhile the significant literary figures of his reign (Seneca, Lucan and Petronius), who were also members of Nero's imperial court, all fell from grace spectacularly and were forced to suicide. This lecture explores Neronian culture and the key elements of its artistic and literary output. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Transcript -- Using Roman satirical writing to discover social history.

Using Roman satirical writing to discover social history.

This episode is part 2 of our series considering the impact Christianity has had on history & culture. Today we dig a little deeper into how the Faith impacted the world's view of the sanctity of life.In our last podcast, we talked about the ancient world's widespread practice of infanticide & how Christianity affected a fundamental shift in the way people evaluated life. This elevation of the value of human life came from Christianity's roots in Biblical Judaism with its revelation that human beings are created in God's image, then taken further by the Incarnation; that God became man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The cross reveals how highly God values people. Therefore, God's people must value them as well. So while the pagan world thought little of exposing unwanted infants to the elements & wild beasts, Christians rescued & adopted them, raising them as their own. It was an early & inventive church growth program.Another way the Christian view of the sanctity of life affected the Roman world was its impact è on the arena.The Roman writer Ausonius reported that gladiatorial games began in Rome about 264 BC. By the time Christians arrived there, the Romans had watched many thousands of gladiators fight to the death with one other & beasts. Because the whole thing was meant to be a show, more often than not, the battles weren't quick affairs. They were long, drawn out torments where as soon as one combatant gained a significant advantage on his opponent, he took his time finishing him off to titillate the blood-lust of the spectators. Death by many cuts. As one historian wrote, the 300 year long popularity of the Gladiatorial games “illustrates the pitiless spirit and carelessness of human life lurking behind the pomp, glitter, and cultural pretensions of the great imperial age.”Like infanticide, the games underscore Rome's low regard for human life.Gladiators were usually slaves, prisoners of war, or condemned criminals, all regarded as expendable. Rome's seeming unstoppable war-machine meant a constant influx of new slaves & prisoners. The games provided a way to reduce the supply to the slave market to keep their price up & keep the legions who sold them supplied with income. So speaking purely pragmatically, the games were a slick arrangement. It helped regulate the slave industry & provided entertainment for the populace. If one poor soul had to die to keep a thousand happy, it was deemed worth it. Social commentators in ancient Rome remarked on how the State kept the ever-ready-to-riot masses pacified by providing free bread & games; giving rise to the phrase – Bread & Circuses.Though over time a handful of gladiator achieved celebrity status, the main bulk of them were considered by society to be loathsome & doomed, assigned by Fate to a pitiless lot. Only a handful of freemen ever willingly became gladiators and if they did it was for money & fame. They enjoyed the applause of the crowd & were willing to imperil their lives to gain it. There were a few women gladiators.Before being allowed to fight in the arena, gladiators were trained. BTW, that word arena comes from the place where gladiatorial contests were waged. Harena is Latin for “sand” and refers to the floor of the theater which was covered w/a fine sand to absorb the blood. The whole aim of the games were to entertain so gladiators were taught the rudiments of combat so they could make a good showing & increase the tension of the spectators. A good deal of gambling took place in the stands as people bet on their hoped-for champion. Because the games were a major event, the famous, rich & powerful were nearly always in attendance, including senators, emperors, pagan priests & vestal virgins.The games weren't held just in Rome. Amphitheaters for games were erected in most major cities of the empire. >> I want to pause briefly and make a clarification. In modern usage, the word amphitheater is often used to describe a venue that's a half circle; like the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. But the prefix amphi means round, a full circle. For the Greeks & Romans, an amphitheater was a full circle, like the Colosseum in Rome. A half circle, is just a theater. Amphitheaters were used for the gladiatorial games while theaters were used primarily for political gatherings, speeches, & plays.Back to the gladiators: In Rome, as combatants entered the arena, they'd file before the emperor's box, salute & shout, “We who are about to die salute you.” They would then fight either man to man or in small teams. Occasionally masses of men would re-enact famous battles from Roman history. But most of the time it was 2 men battling each other to the death. When it became clear one was the victor & his opponent was close to death, the winner would look to the stands for the audience's verdict. If the loser had fought well, they might mark their desire that he be allowed to live by extending their arms & giving a thumbs up. Most times, the crowd wanted to see the match finished by slaying the loser, so they gave thumbs down, the women just as much a part of this as men. All eyes then turned to the emperor whose decision decided the loser's fate. He nearly always went with the crowd's majority.Occasionally gladiators fought wild animals that often got the better of their human opponents. During the early 2nd C, the Emperor Trajan celebrated his conquest of the region of Dacia by hosting games lasting 4 months. Ten thousand gladiators participated & 10,000 animals were killed. Half the gladiators died in the arena while many other died later of their wounds. When Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in Rome in 80 AD, 5,000 animals were killed in a single day, along with hundreds of gladiators.While the average Roman throughout the empire enjoyed the games, Christians were appalled by them. But don't forget, MOST of those early Christians were first, game-loving pagans. A radical transformation took place when they converted. What had once been entertainment became abhorrent as they realized the foolishness of their previous ways. For Christians, the games were gambling with men's lives. They were a shocking violation of the Command, “You shall not murder.”So, Christians refused to attend the games. It wasn't so much a boycott as it was a simple decision to not attend an event so fundamentally a grotesque violation of their deeply held conviction.  What used to be entertainment became a deplorable & degrading vice.Pagan critics of the Faith noticed the Christian absence at the games & complained; calling Christians anti-social! One critic accused, “You do not go to our shows; you take no part in our processions . . . you shrink in horror from our sacred games.” Interesting that the games were called sacred by this pagan critic. He saw participation in what the majority did civilly as a kind of civil religion everyone needed to be a willing part of or they presented a threat & danger to society. As we consider that attitude of the ancient Roman Empire toward Christianity, it speaks volumes to us today about how Christians are once again marginalized for our moral stand on same-sex marriage & intellectual position on theism & creation.Church leaders called upon their members to not attend the games or other pagan celebrations where debauchery was on display. In AD 220 Tertullian wrote a book called “Concerning Shows” & devoted an entire chapter admonishing Christians to not attend the games.Evidence of the profound impact Christianity has had on history & the valuation of human life is that today, as we read this chapter of the history of the Roman Empire, we shudder at the barbarity & butchery of the gladiatorial games. It's appalling imagining people in the stands screaming for blood, cheering as a gladius is drawn slowly across the neck of some poor hapless slave.Christianity's high regard for all human life eventually moved Christian emperors to ban the games. Historians agree – it was the growth of the Faith & the persuasion of the Gospel that affected a fundamental shift in the way people regarded life. People grew uneasy with the idea that they were entertained by cruelty & murder. The emperors Theodosius & his son Honorius brought an official end to the games in the late 4th C after 7 centuries of brutality and untold thousands slaughtered for no more reason that entertainment.Someone might ask if the modern penchant for violence in movies & TV, with all the blood & gore isn't a return to the moral bankruptcy of the Roman games. There's an important difference – in movies & TV, everyone knows it's contrived – no one is actually hurt. In fact, stunt crews go to great lengths to ensure they aren't; whereas in the ancient games, the victor was cheered & encouraged by the crowds to finish it by brutally killing his opponent. Even in modern boxing matches, the referee stops the match when one of the contestants is in danger of real harm.Where this seems to be changing though is in the realm of MMA where combatants aim at doing real harm to their opponent and injury is common. As the sport grows & more fighters enter the octagon, the crowd's thirst for the spectacular keeps growing apace. We can only hope they don't ever get to the point where they stand, extend their arm and give a thumbs down on a loser who's tapped out.Christianity had a positive impact on other Romans laws as soon as the Emperor became a Christian. In 315 Constantine banned the practice of branding the faces of criminals condemned to serve in the mines or as gladiators.  He did so because man was created in the image of God and the face is a special & unique way of identifying individuals. He eventually banned all branding of slaves. He also required people arrested for a crime be given a speedy trial, since holding them implied guilt by holding them against their will. Coming to see the cross as a most cruel form of execution, crucifixion was also outlawed.Constantine's son Constantius followed in his father's reforming ways. He segregated male & female prisoners, to which we say, “Duh!” But know this, until the mid-4th C, male & female prisoners were incarcerated together. And yes, you can imagine what that meant for the poor women. It reveals what low regard Greco-Roman culture had for women who weren't under the manus, that is - the controlling hand of a husband. Such women were considered fair game for the unwelcomed attention of men. The elevation of women found in the Bible brought social transformation where ever the Faith spread.We've already considered the long historical debate over the legitimacy of Constantine's conversion. Was it real or feigned because he could see which way the religio-political winds among Rome's legions were blowing? His reforming of these deep-seated Roman customs regarding the sanctity of life do suggest he really understood the implications of the Gospel & had some kind of a moral revolution himself. A guy who merely used Christianity when it was convenient wouldn't call for the radical reformation of centuries old traditions knowing the social unrest it would cause unless he was convinced it was the right thing to do.Another way the Christian view of the sanctity of life shines through in transforming the ancient world is in the end it brought to human sacrifice, a fairly common practice in paganism. Child sacrifices were common rituals for Canaanite worshipers of Baal. Before Patrick arrived in Ireland, the Druids sacrificed both adults & infants. As late the 13th & 14th Centuries, the yet unreached Prussians & Lithuanians practice human sacrifice. In the New World, the Aztecs & Mayans both sacrificed many thousands of victims in blood orgies. The Aztecs would even subdue a neighboring tribe just to produce victims to sacrifice, leaving pools of blood at the base of their pyramids.But where ever the Gospel went & people were converted to faith in Christ, human sacrifice came to an end.Finally, where ever the Gospel reached, people's views of suicide changed. The philosophy of Stoicism which held a powerful sway over the mindset of the Roman Empire, put little value on human life, including one's own. The ancient Romans had gone all in on the idea of quality of life. The only lives that bore any quality were those of the rich, powerful & privileged. The lower classes were taught to accept the fact that Fate had passed them by & the best they could aspire to was to make the lives of the blessed a little better before giving up their pathetic little lives. Suicide was considered a viable option when life was just too much to endure.Some Greeks & Romans even considered suicide a glorious end. The person who took their own life in their own time, their own way was the master of their own fate – not leaving death to claim them at its whim. Many notable Romans took their own lives, including Cato, Seneca, Petronius & some of the Emperors. Suicide was lauded as brave, a noble thing to do if it meant avoiding shame.It's sad therefore to see the modern resurrection of the old arguments for suicide, that it's noble if it means being the master of your own destiny, avoiding shame, or is a rebuttal to the supposed lack of quality of a person's life. Christians joyously announce that in fact we AREN'T the masters of our fate, God is. Shame is dealt with at the cross, & the issue isn't quality of life – it's sanctity of life. Quality is subjective, with one person's abyssmalation being another's glory, & vice versa. Abyssmalation isn't even a word – but it gets the point across.Christianity regards suicide as self-murder, a most obvious violation of the sanctity of life. It's also, in nearly all cases, a profound loss of faith in God; concluding that one's life is beyond God's ability to rescue, restore & redeem.Interestingly, while suicide came to be generally regarded as incompatible with Faith in God, it wasn't until the Council of Elvira in 305 that it was formally condemned. And even then it wasn't suicide as an act of desperation that was in view by the ban placed on it. What prompted the Council's ban was the fact some Christians were too eager to be martyred. Remember that the couple decades just before Constantine became emperor were times of great & bloody persecution for Christians. Martyrs had achieved heroic status. What had been meant as a way to encourage Christians to stay faithful went overboard & became a kind of perverse delight in being martyred. So there were dozens who could easily have survived just by exercising some simple wisdom. But they nearly dared their tormentors to kill them, thinking that by doing so they were being heroic and would earn more points with God. Really, it was an ancient form of suicide by cop – in this case, suicide by executioner = Martyrdom. The Council of Elvira called a halt to it in 305.Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, Gregory of Nazianus & Eusebius all condemned suicide. But the most vociferously opposed to it was Augustine in the 5th C. You may remember he wrote against the Donatists in North Africa. The Donatists believed there was no forgiveness of sins after baptism, so some had gone to extreme measures & agreed to a mass suicide right after being dunked.Augustine reasoned suicide violated the command “You shall not murder.” He pointed out that in the Bible, none of the Heroes of the Faith took their own lives and when Elijah asked God to slay him, God refused.As the years passed, the Roman church added more prescriptions to suicide in the hope no one would even think about it for the way it would consign the soul to eternal darkness. Public attitude toward suicide eventually changed to such a degree that it went from being considered noble to cowardly. Instead of using it to escape shame, it became a means to it.In our next episode, we'll consider Christianity's impact on sexual morality.