The studied spontaneity of Horace.
Petronius
Tag: Petronius
19MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
Petronius
18MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Not worth his salt.
Petronius
17MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’, she replied, ‘I want to die’ .
Petronius
16MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
One good turn deserves another.
Petronius
15MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
He has joined the great majority (the dead).
Petronius
14MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters ‘Beware of the dog.’
Petronius
16MAY2019 – American Greatness Post of the Day – Our Modern Satyricon – VDH
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist by training so it is perhaps unsurprising that he finds the analogies between Petronius’s Satyricon and the cultural rot of our own age.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/15/our-modern-satyricon/
But I still praise him for the accuracy of his point by point comparison. Comparing the present age to post-republican Rome has become a common trope but Hanson points out just how accurate it is. Nothing new here, just the scholarly expertise of the author pointing out the exactness of the analogy.