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| - | :''[[Dinner with Trimalchio]]'' | ||
| - | '''Trimalchio''' is a character in the [[Roman novel]]" ''The [[Satyricon]]'' by [[Petronius]]. He plays a part only in the section entitled ''Cena Trimalchionis'' (The Banquet of Trimalchio). Trimalchio is a [[freedman]] who through hard work and perseverance has attained power and wealth. His full name is Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio Maecenatianus; the references to [[Pompey]] and [[Maecenas]] in his name serve to enhance his ostentatious character. The name Trimalchio is [[Semitic]] and means "thrice-blessed". His wife's name is Fortunata, a former prostitute. Trimalchio is known for throwing lavish [[dinner]] [[party|parties]], where his numerous servants bring course after course of exotic [[delicacy|delicacies]], such as live [[bird]]s sewn up inside a [[pig]] and a dish to represent every sign of the [[zodiac]]. The ''Satyricon'' has a lengthy description of Trimalchio's proposed [[tomb]], which is incredibly ostentatious and lavish. This tomb was to be designed by a well-known tomb-builder called [[Habinnas]], who was among the revellers present at Trimalchio's feast. He sought to impress his guests - the Roman [[nouveau riche]], mostly [[freedmen]] - with the ubiquitous excesses seen throughout his dwelling. By the end of the banquet, Trimalchio's drunken showiness leads to the entire household acting out his funeral, all for his own amusement and egotism. | ||
| - | ==In Fiction== | + | '''Semitic''' most commonly refers to the [[Semitic languages]], a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta. |
| - | *The original title of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' was ''Trimalchio in West Egg''. One of Fitzgerald's complete earlier drafts of the book was published under the name ''[[Trimalchio (novel)|Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby]]''. Fitzgerald makes a reference to Trimalchio in the introduction to Chapter 7 of ''The Great Gatsby'': ''It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.'' | + | '''Semitic''' may also refer to: |
| - | *Trimalchio is also referred to in the novel ''[[Pompeii (novel)| Pompeii]]'' by [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]], where the character Numerius Popidius Ampliatus, also a freed slave who has become wealthy, throws a great dinner party where there is too much for everyone to eat. A guest secretly compares him to Trimalchio, to the great amusement of another. | + | ==Religions== |
| + | * [[Abrahamic religions]], also known as [[Semitic religions (disambiguation)|Semitic religions]] | ||
| + | * [[Ancient Semitic religion]] | ||
| - | *[[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s short story '[[The Rats in the Walls]],' makes reference to Trimalchio, reading, 'There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.' | + | ==Other linguistic terms== |
| + | * [[Proto-Semitic language]] | ||
| + | * [[Semitic root]] | ||
| + | * [[Semitic studies]] | ||
| - | *Trimalchio is mentioned and quoted by [[Henry Miller]] in his book ''[[Black Spring]]''. The section entitled "Third of Fourth Day of Spring" is opened up with a quotation reading: "To piss warm and drink cold, as Trimalchio says, because our mother the earth is in the middle..." | + | ==People== |
| + | * [[Semitic people]], an obsolete term for cultures that speak or spoke Semitic languages | ||
| + | * [[Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples]] | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Semitism (disambiguation)]] | ||
| + | * [[Shem]] | ||
| - | *Trimalchio's Feast is alluded to in "Toga Party" by [[John Barth]], which was included in ''The Best American Short Stories 2007'', in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party. | ||
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Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta.
Semitic may also refer to:
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- Abrahamic religions, also known as Semitic religions
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- Semitic people, an obsolete term for cultures that speak or spoke Semitic languages
- Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
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