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Rethinking the History of the Literary Symposium
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Old Comedy, Menippean Satire, and Philosophy's Tattered Robes in Boethius' Consolation
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Vainglorious Menippus In Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead
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The Confessions of Persius
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Menippus, the cur from Crete
Calling Menippus “Cretan dog” in his Life of Menippus, 6.99-101, Diogenes Laertius does not imply that he was a Cynic: he rather refers to cynanthropy, a pathological bent for death and graves that Greek folklore used to link with Crete