J.B. Kennedy

NEW SEXUAL PUNS IN PLATO’S SYMPOSIUM : HICCUPS, SNEEZES AND PAUSANIAS

Abstract No consensus has been reached about the humorous banter in the sneezing and hiccups passages in Plato’s Symposium (185d2–e5, 189a1–c1). Drawing on the work of Craik, Henderson and others, as well as new evidence from the Hippocratic Corpus and Aristophanes’ plays, this a...