Word: petronius
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Darnielle is well aware of his credentials as an oral poet and understands the ancient origins of his craft. Early cassette-tape album titles include such in-the-know Latin-isms as Taking the Dative, Transmissions to Horace, and Songs to Petronius, and he addresses Greek tragedy in songs like “Against Agamemnon,” and “Deianara Crush.” Darnielle freely acknowledges his debt to ancient literature and song-culture. It was this interest in the story of song that he brought to Cambridge last week...
...seems almost a cold war anachronism, but the tendency to look anxiously toward Washington remains an inborn trait. The human mind abhors a power vacuum; even in the dying years of the Roman Empire, free men could probably rattle off the names and pedigrees of Emperors like Petronius Maximus, Majorian and Severus...
...animals were considered hot stuff. So were certain foods. "If envious age relax the nuptial knot," advised the poet Martial, "thy food be scallions, and thy feast shallot." Onions were a favorite, as were garlic, pepper, savory, cabbage, asparagus, eggs, pineapples, snails ("but without sauce," cautioned the fastidious Petronius) and just about any creature dredged from Aphrodite's watery birthplace...
...covered all the war fronts for the British propaganda office. In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline...
...Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems; and a coarse, cracked Shigaraki water jar that is said to have belonged to no less a master than Sen no Rikyū, the man who codified the tea ceremony as a formal art and was in effect the Petronius Arbiter of Momoyama taste...