Editing Trimalchio (section)

==Character description==
His full name is "Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio Maecenatianus";<ref>{{Cite book |last=Branham |first=R. Bracht |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhS9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116 |title=Inventing the Novel: Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face |date=2019-11-07 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-257822-8 |pages=116 |language=en}}</ref> the references to [[Pompey]] and [[Maecenas]] in his name serve to enhance his ostentatious character. His wife's name is Fortunata, a former slave and chorus girl. Trimalchio is known for throwing lavish [[Party#Dinner party|dinner parties]], where his numerous slaves bring course after course of exotic [[delicacy|delicacies]], such as live [[bird]]s sewn up inside a [[pig]], live birds inside fake eggs which the guests have to "collect" themselves, and a dish to represent every sign of the [[zodiac]].

The ''Satyricon'' has a lengthy description of Trimalchio's proposed [[tomb]] (71–72), which is ostentatious and lavish.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Arrowsmith |first=William |author-link=William Arrowsmith |title=Luxury and Death in the Satyricon |journal=Arion |year=1966 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=304–331 |issn=0095-5809 |jstor=20163030}}</ref> By the end of the banquet, Trimalchio's drunken showiness leads to the entire household acting out his funeral, all for his own amusement and egotism.