at Gatsby's mansion is named Trimalchio (played by Iota). Trimalchio's feast is alluded to in the short story "Toga Party" by John Barth, which was included in The Best American Short Stories 2007, in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party. Trimalchio and his feast are referenced in Octavio Paz's poem, "I Speak of the City". Thomas Love Peacock mentions Trimalchio and Niceros in his preface to Rhododaphne (1818). Albert Pike in the "Entered Apprentice" chapter of his Scottish Rite Freemasonry text Morals & Dogma (1871) references Trimalchio as an example of a legislator who spends the public purse lavishly or extravagantly – operating from their own vices and egotism. He counsels Scottish Rite Freemasons to stand against such lawmakers. In The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill (1998), Trimalchio appears throughout the poem as one of its many personae. On Finnish band Apollo's 1970 eponymous album is a song called "Trimalcion", composed by jazz-drummer Edward Vesala, one of his first released compositions C. P. Snow references Trimalchio in Chapter 28 of In Their Wisdom (1974). The self-made magnate Swaffield hosts a party in order to restore favour with influential figures within the Conservative party, “…he acted as though giving a Cabinet Minister a good dinner was likely to make him a friend for life. Would it have been better, sceptics could have pondered, to avoid the ghost of Trimalchio and give that Cabinet Minister a cheese sandwich at the local pub?”. The party was held on Thursday 20 July 1972 at 27 Hill Street, W1, “There were, though, considerable departures from Trimalchio about the July party. It had to be stately, Swaffield decided before he got down to planning…”. DBC Pierre's novel Lights Out in Wonderland climaxes with a dinner party closely modeled on that of Trimalchio. Robin Brooks refers to Trimalchio in The Portland Vase, recounting the tale of a glass maker who claimed to have made unbreakable glass. On demonstrating this and confirming he had not shared the production method, the craftsman was beheaded to protect Roman Industry. Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Passenger has the Falstaffian character John Sheddan state to the protagonist Bobby Western, “Trimalchio is wiser than Hamlet” to summarise his discourse on the condition of modern man. Notes Further reading Bagnani, G. "Trimalchio." Phoenix 8, no. 3 (1954): 77–91. Baldwin, B. "Trimalchios's Domestic Staff." Acta Classica 21 (1978): 87–97. Bodel, J. "The