1. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 34-35, 39, 50-51, 60, 26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277 | 26. By this time Psyche had thrown the bridal veil over the child's head; our pathic friend was marching in front with a torch; a long procession of drunken women followed, clapping their hands, having previously decked the marriage bed with a splendid coverlet. Then Quartilla, fired by the wanton pleasantry, likewise rose from table, and seizing Giton drew him into the chamber. The lad was not at all loath to go, and even the child manifested very little fear or reluctance at the name of matrimony. In due course when they were in bed and the door shut, we sat down on the threshold of the nuptial chamber, and first of all Quartilla applied an inquisitive eye to a crack in the door contrived for some such naughty purpose, and watched their childish dalliance with lecherous intentness. She drew me gently to her side to enjoy the same spectacle, and our faces being close together as we looked, she would, at every interval in the performance, twist her lips sideways to meet mine, and kept continually pecking at me with a sort of furtive kisses.. . . . We threw ourselves into bed and spent the rest of the night without terrors. . . . The third day had come. A good dinner was promised. But we were bruised and sore. Escape was better even than rest. We were making some melancholy plans for avoiding the coming storm, when one of Agamemnon's servants came up as we stood hesitating, and said, "Do you not know at whose house it is today? Trimalchio, a very rich man, who has a clock and a uniformed trumpeter in his dining-room, to keep telling him how much of his life is lost and gone." We forgot our troubles and hurried into our clothes, and told Giton, who till now had been waiting on us very willingly, to follow us to the baths. |
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| 2. Plutarch, Moralia, 520c (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, apuleius •wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, mesomedes Found in books: Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 276 |
| 3. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 2.32-3.11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 276 |
| 4. Mesomedes, Fragments, 13, 7-8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 276 |
| 5. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Pertinax, 8.6-8.7 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •wonder-culture, in imperial fiction •wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, mesomedes •wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, petronius Found in books: Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277 |
