Bone and Sickle
Bone and Sickle
Al Ridenour
An After-Dinner Reading: Decadent Dining in the Satyricon
23 minutes Posted Nov 23, 2022 at 9:26 pm.
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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.