Puke Collector at Roman banquets 豪宴上的拾污者.doc

听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC 学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】 - PAGE 1 - Puke Collector at Roman banquets 豪宴上的拾污者 Heres a room full of ravin revelers, looking remarkably a lot of people in the pub next door. Roman wine was deadly stuff when the party really got going, the slaves, who Im calling Puke Collectors, had to run around clearing up. Other than that, it was pretty much like our Christmas lunch right down to the party hats. Fiona, what is that hat? Its a Fringing cap. Fringing cap? Do women wear them too? Oh, yes. What do they signify? They signify liberty. They are the caps given to slaves when they are freed. But at the Saturnalia everybody wears them since the idea that this is the time when the poor and the rich and even the slaves would sit down with their masters. So everybody is equal for this about a week of the year. So, Eric doesnt have to be serving all night? Well, this household obviously arent playing the egalitarian game, because not every Roman household does that, so, at the Saturnalia, so, hes having to stand up, hes still having to work. Eric, this is an egalitarian household, you can sit down, well, Ill do your job. Thank you very much. John, have you got one of those caps? Sure. Youll hold the wine. There is a common belief that Romans had a room called vomitorium where they used to throw up. Sadly for me, its not quite true. Hang on, hang on! Davis, chucked up. Er, thats disgusting. You are the slave, so, you are gonna clear it up, he is not going to do it. Of course Ill have to clear it up. This is the worst job, isnt it? Ur, do we actually know that slaves had to clear up the sick at parties? We...we know this quite clearly from literary writers. Sanics letters are particularly rich on, so condemning the excess of drinking and eating, and also the excess of having your slaves do everything for you even clearing up puke. Puke collectors had to be prepared to do anything. To their masters, they were human tools who had to be invisible. Theres s