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Literature in the Imperial period often displays a love of collection and compilation. 1 The miscellanies of Aelian (both historical and animal), the crazy quilt of Clement of Alexandria's theological musings in the Stromata and the collected biographies of Diogenes Laertius are only a few of the Severan-era examples of miscellanies. Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh have gone so far as to say that "it is sometimes hard to avoid the impression that accumulation of knowledge is the driving force of all Imperial prose literature" (König and Whitmarsh 2007: 3). And while miscellany could find a home in a variety of genres, there was one genre that was found to be particularly welcoming to the addition of bit upon bit -the Symposium. The Symposium, as an institution and as a literary genre, valued variety, and was seen as a natural place to enjoy a mixed assortment of food, fellow guests and conversation. It reveled in the delight of variety (poikilia), providing the barest of restraints on the riot of inclusion. The first Symposia, written by Plato and Xenophon in the fourth century BCE, inaugurated the concept of setting a philosophical dialogue at the cultural institution of the symposi

Author

LaValle Norman, Dawn

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN