In Charon or the Inspectors we find the ferryman of the underworld on earth, talking to the god Hermes about wealth, happiness, and the vain human striving for material goods. The piece has been considered to be an example of Menippean satire inside the corpus of Lucian’s works. Homeric poetry is always in the background. Lucian uses Homeric verses, or rather, verses structured in the Homeric manner, to formulate his critical view of the mortal world; in addition, he puts these verses into the mouth of a character who must temporarily give up his job as a ferryman in order to practise the art of rhapsody. This paper analyses a textual problem: the two variants in Cont. 7 referring to Homer in the manuscript tradition. In a context in which ...
Aristides Quintilianus’ treatise On Music, datable II-IV A.D., quotes Homer as an authority regardin...
This paper aims to study the way in which Xenophanes uses and modifies the Homeric diction in his fr...
En este artículo se examinan los capítulos del "De Homero", un tratado atribuido a Plutarco, dedicad...
In Charon or the Inspectors we find the ferryman of the underworld on earth, talking to the god Herm...
[eng] Lucian, in several works, criticizes contemporary society, power, culture, religion, literatur...
Este estudio analiza, en términos cuantitativos, el papel asignado a la voz del narrador y al estilo...
Miguel de Unamuno fue un constante lector de poesía épica, en la que Homero siempre tuvo un lugar pr...
This paper deals with Menippus or Necromancy of Lucian of Samosata, a satiric dialogue on Menippus’ ...
El descenso o el tirano (Cat.) es un diálogo de Luciano de Samosata formado por los tópicos retórico...
Tradicionalmente se ha leído la obra que nos ocupa como una prueba más de la capacidad magistral de ...
This paper explores aspects of what I shall call pity or compassion in Homer (especially Iliad 24) a...
It has been long acknowledged that Lucian employs various forms of allusion to the Iliad and Odyssey...
La gran importancia de Homero en la civilización griega explica que el poeta está involucrado en tod...
Aristophanes often integrates in his comedies situations, complete lines, hemistichs or single words...
As a stated in a passage of Dissertation XVIII, 8 by Maximus of Tyre (2nd c AD), summarizing what he...
Aristides Quintilianus’ treatise On Music, datable II-IV A.D., quotes Homer as an authority regardin...
This paper aims to study the way in which Xenophanes uses and modifies the Homeric diction in his fr...
En este artículo se examinan los capítulos del "De Homero", un tratado atribuido a Plutarco, dedicad...
In Charon or the Inspectors we find the ferryman of the underworld on earth, talking to the god Herm...
[eng] Lucian, in several works, criticizes contemporary society, power, culture, religion, literatur...
Este estudio analiza, en términos cuantitativos, el papel asignado a la voz del narrador y al estilo...
Miguel de Unamuno fue un constante lector de poesía épica, en la que Homero siempre tuvo un lugar pr...
This paper deals with Menippus or Necromancy of Lucian of Samosata, a satiric dialogue on Menippus’ ...
El descenso o el tirano (Cat.) es un diálogo de Luciano de Samosata formado por los tópicos retórico...
Tradicionalmente se ha leído la obra que nos ocupa como una prueba más de la capacidad magistral de ...
This paper explores aspects of what I shall call pity or compassion in Homer (especially Iliad 24) a...
It has been long acknowledged that Lucian employs various forms of allusion to the Iliad and Odyssey...
La gran importancia de Homero en la civilización griega explica que el poeta está involucrado en tod...
Aristophanes often integrates in his comedies situations, complete lines, hemistichs or single words...
As a stated in a passage of Dissertation XVIII, 8 by Maximus of Tyre (2nd c AD), summarizing what he...
Aristides Quintilianus’ treatise On Music, datable II-IV A.D., quotes Homer as an authority regardin...
This paper aims to study the way in which Xenophanes uses and modifies the Homeric diction in his fr...
En este artículo se examinan los capítulos del "De Homero", un tratado atribuido a Plutarco, dedicad...