"Motifs and Techniques in Lucian's "de Parasito
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5147673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Anderson (0000-0002-2917-4085, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1087852 |
| OpenAlex | W2328558678 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
THE rrep1 rapa.crov OCCUPIES A CURIOUS POSITION on the fringe of the Corpus Lucianeum; it is felt to be an eccentric work on a recherche subject in an uncharacteristic style. The alleged differences from Lucianic usage listed by J. Bieler' have now been adequately refuted,2 and most scholars would assume that any such departures are due to parody of Plato's Gorgias.3 But Harmon found the humour of this piece un-Lucianic (235), and Helm4 drew attention to the lack of Lucianic themes and the unusually articulated divisions of the argument. Lucian was certainly not the only rhetorical writer to produce imitations of Plato5 or interest himself in parasites,6 nor did he have a monopoly of Comic Dialogue, as the occasional essays by Dio or Plutarch7 serve to show; it is still worthwhile to answer the objections of Harmon and Helm in full, by showing that this dialogue does in fact illustrate Lucian's characteristic methods of applying his usual motifs and dialogue-structure to a recondite subject
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |