" like one, that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned round walks on, and turns no more his head ; because he knows, a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread..." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"How a ship having passed the line was driven by storms to the cold country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical latitude of the great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own country." Argument of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', conceived by English poets Coleridge and Wordsworth on November 13, 1797
in roman festivals the epulum jovis was a sumptuous feast offered up to Jupiter on the 13th november of every year it was celebrated during the ludi romani (roman games) and the ludi plebeii (plebian games) the gods were formally invited and attended for their statues were brought along in rich beds furnished with soft pillows called pulvinaria thus accommodated their godships were placed on their couches at the most honorable part of the table and served with the rich dainties as if they were able to eat but the epulones or ministers who oversaw the care and management of the feast performed that function for them...
" like one, that on a lonesome road
ReplyDeletedoth walk in fear and dread,
and having once turned round walks on,
and turns no more his head ;
because he knows, a frightful fiend
doth close behind him tread..."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
illustration - Gustave Doré
"How a ship having passed the line was driven by storms to the cold country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical latitude of the great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own country."
ReplyDeleteArgument of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', conceived by English poets Coleridge and Wordsworth on November 13, 1797
Epulum Jovis
ReplyDeletein roman festivals
the epulum jovis was a sumptuous feast offered up to Jupiter
on the 13th november of every year
it was celebrated during the
ludi romani (roman games)
and the ludi plebeii (plebian games)
the gods were formally invited
and attended
for their statues were brought along
in rich beds furnished with soft
pillows called pulvinaria
thus accommodated their godships
were placed on their couches
at the most honorable part of the table
and served with the rich dainties
as if they were able to eat
but the epulones or ministers
who oversaw the care
and management of the feast
performed that function for them...