Abstract

ALVAREZ SALAS, Omar. Teatro filosófico en Luciano y Alfonso Reyes: dos diálogos de 'Pitágoras'. Nova tellus [online]. 2008, vol.26, n.2, pp.271-292. ISSN 0185-3058.

In this article two dramatic sketches featuring Pythagoras of Samos are examined, both of which, in spite of the quite different purposes of their authors and of the intervening 18 centuries lapse of time between them, show a remarkable parallelism in the treatment of the character: this might be a result of the dependance, shared by both authors, on written traditions of much the same kind. "The philosophers of the islands", a brief masterpiece by Mexican writer and Greek scholar Alfonso Reyes taken from his work Junta de Sombras will be examined, where he depicts the philosopher of Samos in a dialog with Xenophanes. With this evocative piece by Reyes Lucian's Vitarum auctio will be compared, where Pythagoras's image -certainly a frequent source of inspiration for Lucian's satire- shows an outspoken bookish outlook, which, disregarding Lucian's humorous vein, matches in many ways to Alfonso Reyes' 'scholarly' reconstruction.

Keywords : Alfonso Reyes; Ateneo de la Juventud; diálogo filosófico; Jenófanes; Junta de Sombras; Luciano de Samosata; Pitágoras; sátira; Vitarum auctio.

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