TY - JOUR AU - Sowa, Joanna PY - 2019/07/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Toxaris albo O przyjaźni Lukiana z Samosat - ideał czy parodia? JF - Vox Patrum JA - VoxP VL - 71 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.31743/vp.3978 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/3978 SP - 447-474 AB - <p>LUCIAN’S <em>TOXARIS, OR FRIENDSHIP</em> – IDEAL OR PARODY?</p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>The <em>Toxaris</em> of Lucian is a dialogue in form, but its contents are a collection of fabulous and sentimental stories about friendship, related by a Greek Mnesippos and a Scythian Toxaris, to demonstrate the superiority of their respective national groups. Its formal transparency is a problem: it can be interpreted&nbsp; as an entertaining work extolling traditional friendship, or as a typically lucianic parody of the kind of sentimental views of Greek male friendship depicted in romantic novels, as well as popular myth and legend. This paper proposes that in <em>Toxaris </em>Lucian may be using his humour, above all, to challenge common stereotypes about Greeks and “barbarians”, and to show a new form of friendship – that between individuals with similar values, based on their common <em>paideia</em>.</p> ER -