Veneno simposíaco: envenenamiento en los banquetes en la obra plutarquea

Abstract

In the festive environment of the banquet, it is possible to identify moments when this mood has been broken, and Plutarch presents many examples of it in the Vitae and Moralia. One possibility of disrupting this context is poisoning the guest, as Parysatis killed Stateira, or trying to do it, such as Medea did with Theseus or Neoptolomeus with Phyrrus. Apart from relating these deaths, or failed attempts, by poison at the banquet, Plutarch also adds the consequences for the hosts of breaking down this happy time and the reasons why they committed the murders.