{"id":118486,"date":"2023-02-06T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=118486"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T07:48:06","slug":"certain-calvisius-sabinus","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/certain-calvisius-sabinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain Calvisius Sabinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/seneka-mlodszy\/\">Seneca the Younger<\/a>, a Roman philosopher and writer from the 1st century CE, mentions in his letters <em><b>Calvisius Sabinus<\/b><\/em> &#8211; a wealthy and respected Roman who had such a bad memory that he couldn&#8217;t even remember the names of Homeric heroes. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Calvisius<\/em>, however, wanted to pass as an educated and well-read person at banquets, so he ordered his <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/social-layers-of-ancient-rome\/slavery-in-ancient-rome\/\">slaves<\/a> to memorize entire Greek works.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them was a specialist in a different work. In total, the Romans had 11 slaves who could &#8220;throw&#8221; him an interesting quote from Homer, Hesiod or others during a chic dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-118486","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\/118486","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\/118486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=118486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}