caa a22 4500 386376530 CHVBK 20180307112021.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632040 doi S0075426900012684 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632040 Branham R. B. The Center for Hellenic Studies 3100 Whitehaven Street Washington, D.C. 20008 The Wisdom of Lucian's Tiresias [Elektronische Daten] [R. B. Branham] The climactic moment of Lucian's Necyomantia occurs when the ludic Cynic preacher, Menippus, finds Tiresias in Hades and poses to him the question which provoked his Homeric quest: what is the best way of life (ποῖόν τινα ήγεῖται τòν ἂριοτον βίον, 21)? The first part of the Theban's response is clear. He praises the life of ‘the ordinary guy' (ό τῶν ὶδιωτῶ ἂριστος βίος . . .21) and urges the Cynic to ignore the philosophers with their metaphysical speculations and instead to pursue one end alone (τοῦτο μόνον έξ ἄριστος θηράσῃ, 21.3-4). It is this end, the kernel of Tiresias' wisdom, which has not been successfully construed by commentators. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 159-160 0075-4269 109<159 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Branham R. B. The Center for Hellenic Studies 3100 Whitehaven Street Washington, D.C. 20008 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 159-160 0075-4269 109<159 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge