#petronius

love this cure for erectile dysfunction that oenothea inflicts on encolpius in the satyricon. you know what will really make your penis feel better? stinging nettle attack

well petronius didn’t own a restaurant but you know what he was? A cerimonial and a poet who wrote the Satyricon which is a book about satirical greek romance featuring homosexual and erotic stories. I also wanted to add the while Petronius didn’t write a lot about food in his saturas (the genre of the satyricon) the theme of banquets and food is very important and also present in his book in the passage of Cena Trimalchionis which depicts the “malus more” of free slaves at the time. Also did you know that the name Satyricon might derive from the fact that Satiri loved to “stalk” and follow Ninfee around, at least based on what my professor said anyway. I don’t know if this will make any sense but Aziraphale and Crowley here are depicted as beings who have rather human tendencies and who enjoy rather depravity if I may say so, I mean Petronius is not Cicero am I right? This is what they were in reality, not two heroes but two random dudes connecting despite their differences, their love wasn’t really predictable if was casual, ineffable if I may say. They weren’t made to save the universe they were made to understand it and help humans to fix it this is the only way human incarnate can win on religion and oppression

Satyricon • Federico Fellini • 1969

threw a lucan in there too

Desperate attempt to hit my reading goal for the end of the year. After a months long reading slump threw me off. Therefore, two of the tinier books from my shelves...

"shall we split the boy too?"

Petronius & Eunice