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L’Omero dei “simposi letterari”, l'Omero della Cena Trimalchionis

2022

Expressions, verses and sequences dealt from the Iliad and the Odyssey are the basis of the conversations held in Plato’s and Xenophon’s ‘literary symposia’, representing the privileged repertoire of images and codified situations for both quantity and variety of subjects to which both Socrate and the other characters referred to when they gathered at table, sometimes intervening also on textual exegesis problems. Direct projection of an aural / oral civilization in which the Homeric texts still constitute the tribal ‘encyclopedia’ of the Greek world, the two Symposia reveal their own alterity with respect to the Convivium of the Seven Wise by Plutarch in which the quotations from the two a…