As Eumolpus, the work's singing narrator, the tenor must negotiate a series of treacherous arias that suggest Russian Orthodox chant, 18th-century Italian opera and, occasionally, Cole Porter. |
The subsequent appearance of Eumolpus in the picture gallery occasions a useful discussion of parallel scenes in the Aeneid and the Greek novel. |
In the storm scene in Petronius's Satyricon, Encolpius, Ascylton, Giton and Eumolpus find themselves aboard a ship owned by Lichas of Tarentum and his wife, Tryphaena. |
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active. |
Because Orpheus and his followers were closely connected with mysteries of all sorts, Eumolpus was believed to be the son, father, or pupil of Musaeus, a mythical singer closely allied with Orpheus. |
His comment attracts the attention of Eumolpus, who tells him the sordid joke about the Pergamene boy. |