| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 5, 2001, 19:33 |
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David Peterson wrote:> Has anyone seen the Fellini movie Satyricon? I have some questions about > it, like, what play did it originally come from, can it still be found, and > was it anything like the movie? Also, the English version I saw didn't > translate nearly enough, and I got the sense there were many languages in the > movie. Like there's one part where there's some slave speaking German! > What's up with that?! Were there speakers of modern German (or, at least, > German intelligible to my not-yet-fluent girlfriend?) in the Southern > Mediterranean around whatever time period that movie took place? >I've never seen the movie, but I read the book. It's not a play - it was a novel. The greater part seems to be lost, and what's left doesn't contain enough to be much of a story. But the remaining parts are fun to read. The most famous part, Trimalchio's Dinner, is not the only bit worth reading. My edition is the bilingual Loeb, with a very stilted and somewhat bowdlerized translation by Michael Heseltine, in one volume with Seneca's Apolocyntosis. As for the German - Petronius was a courtier of Nero, so there might well have been slaves from Germania around. Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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