26 Plutarch and Lucian on Symposia
In: Plutarch and his Contemporaries
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Anna Ginestí Rosell
Anna Ginestí Rosell
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Abstract
Lucian’s Symposium shows intertextual references not only to the two Classical symposia of Plato and Xenophon but also to Plutarch’s Quaestiones convivales. The common opening quotation makes clear Lucian’s literary reference to Plutarch; moreover, Lucian presents several situations in his Symposium that can be interpreted as parodic responses to Plutarch’s normativity. The reception of Plutarch in Lucian’s literary symposia may thus be interpreted as his response to the ideal representation of Plutarchan symposia.