Timarion in fleece: three exemplars
Keywords:
Byzantine period , Timarion, catabasis, hairiness, diatribeAbstract
This article comprises two sections. The first section delimits and contextualizes the topos in question, concerning hairiness in literature. The second section presents a reflection on the meanings that encompass the capillary appearance of three figures from the anonymous Byzantine opusculum of the XII century written in ancient Greek, Timárion. In the case of a historical period convulsed in sociocultural, political, and religious terms, literary fiction in a syncretism of elements from classical Antiquity/paganism reinvented and adapted, mutatis mutandis, in the Judeo-Christian paradigm is a necessary mask to transmit messages of Lucian nature regarding multidimensional criticism with a playful tone. The three hair domains analyzed (capillary, mandibular, anal) constitute an enigma that, after filtration, reveals multiple purposes of relevance to the Byzantine context.
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