Zoilo e Trimalquião: duas variações sobre o tema do novo-rico

Abstract

The author of this article analyzes two variations on the theme of the nouveau-riche: Martial's Zoilus and Petronius' Trimalchio. ln Zoilus, we can grasp ali the main features attached to the image of a freedman, and by this we have a clear example of the social type Martial verberates. Petronius evokes the guidelines of the sarne satyrical tradition, but he ais o gives his literary creation enough psychological density to make of Trimalchio a real character, with much more complexity than a simple social type would expect to have.