CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Catullus, Alazon, Poseur
17 Oct 2017
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Theophrastus" characters 23 definition of alazon: someone who pretends to have more money than they do. Socrates in clouds-> stand-in for all sophists flatterer = his students. Heracles" flatterer = slave-girls in hades" there are quacks in and as: ambassadors in acharnians, Catallus 10 humiliation is worse when it happens in front of an attractive member of the opposite sex. Varus took catallus to see his girlfriend and he started boasting about how he hired eight men. She asked catallus to loan her the men since she wanted to be carried to serapis" temple. Catallus was embarrassed since he didn"t have the men and told her that his partner cinna/gaius got them for himself. Catallus used them as if he bought them and told her she was a pain since she didn"t let a guy day-dream greatest danger by the quack is boring people to death. Roman seneca describes didymus (grammarian) to his friend lucilius.
