Bard or Untrimmed Philosopher? Which One Should One Choose as an Adviser? (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, V, 47-54, 211a-215c)
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2017
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Ptolemy VI Philometor Athenaeus of Naucratis Rhetoric Alexander Balas Bards Athenion of Athens Philosophers Antiochus IV Epiphanes Lysias of Tarsus Homer Masurius Diogenes of Babylon BanquetsCiter ce document
Yannick Scolan, « Bard or Untrimmed Philosopher? Which One Should One Choose as an Adviser? (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, V, 47-54, 211a-215c) », Dialogues d’histoire ancienne, ID : 10670/1.kvw58o
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In the fifth book of the Deipnosophists, the jurist and poet Masurius put to the test of Homeric conventions three philosophers –Diogenes, Athenion, and Lysias– who worked as hypocritical advisers to kings or cities. The rhetorical structure of his discourse allows him to reveal what impostors they were and to create a link between the ideal adviser and the bard, in order to emphasize his own status as heir to Homer.