Homère dans les quaestiones convivales

Abstract

Homer is frequently mentioned in the Quaestiones Convivales, both explicitly and implicitly. The aim of this study is to analyse these instances or allusions – not comprehensively, since they number almost one hundred – and to verify the degree of fi delity in the offered quotations and interpretations of the Homeric text; I try also to understand, if possible, the purposes to which these quotations are due. On acccount of the extensive corpus, I will limit myself to little more than notes and examples. But they will let us to conclude that the references to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the quotations of lines from these poems, appear in varied contexts and situations, illustrating different types of statement and endorsing opinions, even in insignifi cant and pointless questions.