Friendship and Otherness in Lucian’s ›Toxaris‹ - Laura Bottenberg

Friendship and Otherness in Lucian’s ›Toxaris‹

A Literary Commentary
Buch | Hardcover
420 Seiten
2025
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-162559-1 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt

In Lucian's Toxaris, the characters' speeches play a performative role as they become their deeds of friendship. Between irony and (self-)othering, past and present, the dialogue negotiates a mixed form of identity by affirming a Hellenocentric position and deconstructing an Athenocentric per-spective on Greek culture. Eventually, both aspects converge, as the characters' ability to make speeches on friendship displays their mastery of Greekness.

This book, itself a hybrid of commentary and monograph, consists of an introduction, which con-textualises the dialogue in its cultural, philosophical, and literary background; the Greek text with textual critical notes, followed by an English translation; and a commentary, which is organised ac-cording to the central themes of the dialogue: the representation of friendship and the decon-struction of stereotypes. The commentary helps us to better understand how friendship is ap-proached in this dialogue and how the latter relates to the value of friendship in the context of the Roman imperial period. Simultaneously, it provides an examination of the way in which different voices - serious or deriding, Greek or Scythian, etc. - are ambiguously entangled in Lucian's dia-logue.

Laura Bottenberg, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Gemany.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.3.2025
Reihe/Serie Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; 162
Verlagsort Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch; lateinisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Märchen / Sagen
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Latein / Altgriechisch
Schlagworte Antike • Antiquity • Commentary • Kommentar • Latein • Latin • Lucianus • Lucianus, Samosatensis • Samosatensis
ISBN-10 3-11-162559-1 / 3111625591
ISBN-13 978-3-11-162559-1 / 9783111625591
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