Abstract
Dialogue, and more specifically lucianic dialogue, as a literary form, has been a renewed object of study for scholars for several years. However, the Dialogues of the Courtesans do not seem to be part of this process, as if they didn’t share the features of the other works of Lucian. This paper focuses on those dialogues as a whole and intend to emphasize their distinctive characteristics: can we consider them as ‘lucianic’ — in other words, do they show both ‘serious’ and ‘comic’ aspects which are the very definition of comic dialogue? The answer is rather positive: even if the Dialogues of the courtesans have many to do with comedy (especially with Nea), as shown long ago by Ph.-E. Legrand, their main feature may be the constant change of standpoint they use — a process we chose to call ‘decentring’.
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