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 **During the meal there is music and song [1]. In the latter kind, Homer’s verse is the favorite; he is himself a member of the festal company, reclining next above Odysseus [2]. The choirs are of boys and girls, conducted and led by Eunomus the Locrian [3], Arion of Lesbos [4], Anacreon [5] and Stesichorus [6]; this last had made his peace with Helen, and I saw him there. When these have finished, a second choir succeeds, of swans [7] and swallows and nightingales; and when their turn is done, all the trees begin to pipe, conducted by the winds.**
-[1] Epic poetry was performed by a bard, like Demodocus in the //Odyssey//, accompanied by the lyre and song. It appears that Lucian had a real respect for Homer, notwithstanding what he said about him in his preface. //Odyssey// 8.42-45: “And summon hither the divine minstrel, Demodocus; for to him above all others has the god granted skill in song, to give delight in whatever way his spirit prompts.”(( H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H Homer, , George E. Dimock, and A T. Murray. //Odyssey//. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919. Print.
+[1] Epic poetry was performed by a bard, like Demodocus in the //Odyssey//, accompanied by the lyre and song. It appears that Lucian had a real respect for Homer, notwithstanding what he said about him in his preface. //Odyssey// 8.42-45: “And summon hither the divine minstrel, Demodocus; for to him above all others has the god granted skill in song, to give delight in whatever way his spirit prompts.”((Homer, George E. Dimock, and A T. Murray. //Odyssey//. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919. Print.
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 [4] Lais the Courtesan | The celebrated courtesan of Corinth who had real life relations with Aristippus for whom Lucian substitutes Diogenes, the founder of the Cynic School which held opposing beliefs to Aristippus.
-[5] Steep hill of Virtue | A reference to Hesiod //Works and Days// 286-292: “To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.”(( H H H H H H H Hesiod, , and Hugh G. Evelyn-White. //The Homeric Hymns: Homerica//. Cambridge (Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914. Print.
+[5] Steep hill of Virtue | A reference to Hesiod //Works and Days// 286-292: “To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.”((Hesiod, and Hugh G. Evelyn-White. //The Homeric Hymns: Homerica//. Cambridge (Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914. Print.
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