{"id":114123,"date":"2022-11-06T11:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=114123"},"modified":"2022-11-06T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T10:51:16","slug":"gaius-petronius-known-as-arbiter","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/gaius-petronius-known-as-arbiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaius Petronius known as Arbiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gaius Petronius<\/b> called <b>Arbiter<\/b>, who is credited with the authorship of the anonymously published novel <em>Satyricon<\/em>, gained a great influence on <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/neron\/\">Emperor Nero<\/a>, bored with the stoic <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/seneka-mlodszy\/\">Seneca<\/a>. For the emperor, fascinated with Greek culture and who considered himself an artist, and his mannered court, he became an oracle in matters of good taste and artistic values. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hence the nickname <em>Arbiter elegantiae<\/em> (<em>elegantiarum<\/em>). He paid his influence on the emperor not only with Seneca&#8217;s dislike but also with the hatred of Ophonius Tigellinus, the praetorian prefect, who used the plot to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/nero\/\">Nero<\/a> (65 CE) to accuse Petronius of having contacts with one of the leaders of the plot, Gaius Piso. Like Seneca and Lucan, Petronius chose to commit <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/suicide-in-world-of-romans\/\">suicide<\/a> and avoid a shameful execution. Expecting the imminent death sentence, he <b>organized a feast<\/b> during which he opened his veins, then tightened them with a bandage to delay his death. For several hours, he made his property dispositions, feasted, talked with friends, and listened to recitation and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-music\/\">music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36299,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-114123","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=114123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}