Abstract
Lucian’s brief essay,Hippias or The Bath, has been declared spurious, disparaged as frivolous, considered an ironic parody, and generally ignored. Yet it contains the only detailed description of a Roman bath complex (Yegül 1979; 2010) and displays a remarkable command of topics in the eulogistic and epideictic tradition (priamel, ring-composition,praeteritio, apologeticenvoi) that extends from Pindar to the Second Sophistic. This article locatesHippiasin Lucian’s literary program; provides a close, sequential reading of the entire essay that takes into account its thematic vocabulary, style, and rhetoric; and discusses its metaliterary characteristics and its probable idealization of the architect and his baths.
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