Tag Archives: Satyricon of Petronius

satyricon: angering the sex-god priapus

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Dave

Did Fellini mine the original to create his own brutto spettacolo of a pagan world- as it was in Nero’s time, and as it may be in our own? … In his film adaptation of Petronius’s Satyricon Frederico Fellini created a … Continue reading →

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one is the loneliest number a.d.

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Dave

The Year One. Of all the great years in history, it is the oddest because no one alive at the time, or for centuries thereafter, had any idea that this was the Year One at all. If they ever used … Continue reading →

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