Matro Pitaneus, Symposium Atticum fr. I, 18–21 (O.-S.): echini
Abstract
A fragment of Matro of Pitane preserved by Atheneus of Naucratis and conventionally entitled the “Attic Dinner-Party” is a masterpiece of epic gastronomy parody of 4-th c. BC. Th is article is devoted to interpretation of vv. I.18–21 where a narrator says that at the dinner-party he throws the sea-urchins down onto the floor and they roll among the feet of slaves like Patroclus’ helmet among the feet of horses. The long spiny hairs are pulled out from their head by the roots. The problem is why the narrator throws the urchins, whether he eats them or not, and who pulls out the spines of urchins: the narrator in order to make them edible or servants or the seaurchins themselves. I intend to prove that the narrator eats the sea-urchins with a great pleasure and throws their empty shells down. One of the arguments of my interpretation is ancient mosaics in technique of Asarotos oikos showing the picturesque dinner garbage. I think that the passage impresses better, if the point is that the sea-urchins themselves tear out their spines (I.21) like the Homeric Agamemnon does his hair (Il.10.15). Some inconveniences of verses I.18–21 could be explained by a technique of cento.
Keywords:
Matro of Pitane, Homer, versi detorti, hexameter, cento, sea-urchins
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