%0 Journal Article %T El Banquete Indigesto: Una cr¨ªtica luci¨¢nica al paradigma idealista del convivio cultural en El Banquete o los Lapitas %A Cabrero %A Mar¨ªa del Carmen %J Synthesis (La Plata) %D 2007 %I Universidad Nacional de La Plata %X around the middle of the second century a.d., when it is supposed he was in the middle of his literary production and had already mastered the very varied resources of his cultural critics, lucian of samosata writes his own version of the banquet , being the complete title the banquet or the lapites . the purpose of the article is to analyze the lucianic aesthetics to develop a pastiche of the banquet's clich¨¦s, through which he criticizes the intellectuals of his time: philosophers of all kinds, rhetors, grammarians, poets. the results bring some surprises: like all lucianic text, his banquet also questions his future, that is to say, our present. %K simposiaca literatura %K lucian %K the banquet or the lapitas %K humor %K pastiche. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0328-12052007000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en