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Kennedy EncolpiusAgamemnonPetronius 1978
Kennedy EncolpiusAgamemnonPetronius 1978
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4 Quintilian discusses the problems of the classroom in 2.2. but admittedly his
standards were higher than most teachers.
5 Cf. Seneca, Contr. 3. par. 10. The younger Pliny's picture of recitation
confirms the custom of coming and going, Ep. 1.13.2.
6 On the following day at Agamemnon's own school the theme was a con-
troversia, cf. chapter 48.
7 Petronius, The Satyricon and the Fragments, trans. by John Sullivan,
(Penguin Books 1965) 32.
8 The Satyricon, Petronius, trans. by William Arrowsmith (New York 1960)
25.
Agamemnon can qualify as a poet on the basis of chapter 5. Encolpius does not
praise his poem in our extant text, but his flattering interest in it is mentioned
at the opening of chapter 6, which seems to have a lacuna. Or alternatively.
praise of some lines of verse which Agamemnon mouthed was Encolpius' ploy
in approaching him in the first place. Declaimers rarely if ever quote verse in
the remains of the genre we have, but the Menippean conventions of the
Satyricon could take precedence over that custom.
GEORGE KENNEDY
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
AT CHAPEL HILL
21 Quintilian's references (e.g. 2.5.5) seem to make it clear that in his time
there were separate schools of Greek and of Latin rhetoric, and Pliny names his
own two teachers in these subjects (Ep. 6.6.3). At the public shows of declama-
tion attended by the elder Seneca there were sometimes speeches in both Greek
and Latin, and Seneca quotes passages from the Greek speakers, but he indi-
cates (9.3.13) speaking in Latin was regarded as more appropriate and that to
declaim on the same day in both Greek and Latin was a virtuoso performance in
questionable taste.
22 Cf. "A propos des premiers chapitres du Satyricon," Latomus 34 (1975)
197-202.