The Draught of Circe and the Songs of the Sirens: Satire in Lucian’s On Dancing

• Morena Deriu ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cagliari

     University of Cagliari

     Cagliari, Italia

     
• Localización: Maia: Rivista di letterature classiche, ISSN 0025-0538, Vol. 70, Nº 2, 2018, págs. 345-361
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this article is to investigate the satirical traits Lucian attributes to the genre of dance and its performers, namely, the dancers who were famously criticised by other educated contemporaries for their corrupting effeminacy. In De saltatione, these peculiarities justify the author’s apparent incoherence with the rather depreciatory attitude he takes towards dancers in other writings (cfr. apol. 5, merc. cond. 27, Nigr. 15, pseudol. 19) and further explain the seeming distance from the contemporary gender stereotypes which pervade his works elsewhere (cfr. e.g.

    ind. 23, eun. 6, rhet. praec. 4, 11)