Abstract
Abstract This introduction to the special section explores how Lucian’s treatment of textual representation, declamation and physical performance, and artistic likenesses renders reality or knowledge to be matters of subjective viewership, inherently contestable, constantly recreated, and anchored in contests for authority. In his works, observant narrators and comic heroes routinely expose rival sophists or philosophers to be actors in a spectacle but reveal that their posturing as cultured (pepaideumenoi) rhetors can be characterized in precisely the same way. And yet the ostensible author of these texts is the most Protean actor, and the most compelling fiction, of them all.
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