Κοινοκρατηρόσκυφος: comensalidad y política en la poesía cercidea

Resumen

This paper tries to prove that Cercidas' first meliambus, traditionally interpreted as a Cynic diatribe against luxury, can be explained otherwise starting from the circumstances of its performance: taking into account the socio-political value of the feeding practices in the Greek world, we suggest that with the term κοινοκρατηρόσκυφος the poet means that his party is endowed with the political virtue of μεσότης in the opposition to the ἀκρασία of the rival faction.