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A ‘barbarian’ symposium and the absence of philanthropia (Artaxerxes 15)A “b a r b a r i a n” s y m p o s i u m a n d t h e a b s e n c e o f p h i l a n t h r o p i a(Ar t a x e r x e s 15)*Eran AlmagorThe Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstractThis paper studies a unique symposium scene in the Artaxerxes and aims to understand itsnarratological significance in the biography. It is a “barbarian” banquet, which in many respectsis the complete opposite of its Greek counterpart. Yet familiar features of the symposium arenevertheless discernible in it. During the feast, Mithridates, an inebriated Persian, is trickedinto telling a certain truth, which contradicts the official royal version. As a result he is brutallypunished by Artaxerxes, in a deed that essentially removes the trait of philanthropia from themonarch. The paper presents how, on the one hand, the wine imbibed at the party can beregarded as revealing the true character of the king, and how, on the other, the symposium iscrucial in altering the ethos of Artaxerxes. Like Mithridates at the banquet, the reader is alsobaffled by the interplay of ethnic stereotypes, and by the thin line between the real and theapparent, artistically presented by Plutarch.The Greek Symposium, according to Plutarch, should produce Philanthropiaand friendly feeling among its participants 1 . By contrast, in a non-Greeksetting found in the biography of Artaxerxes (15.1-7), a “barbarian” symposium,as it were, is portrayed by Plutarch as leading to the effective removal of thetrait of Philanthropia from the Persian king. It is the aim of this paper to showthe manner in which this reverse outcome is created, and to demonstrate thenarratological significance of the Greek symposium in this Life 2 .The context is a feast taking place in the aftermath of the battle of Cunaxa(401 BC), which saw the victory of Artaxerxes over his rebellious brother,Cyrus the Younger 3 . The guests in this dinner are barbarian, including a youngPersian named Mithridates, who was responsible, according to one version,for striking Cyrus in the temple with his spear 4 . He was not the only one who* I am grateful to Profs. C. Pelling and D. Gera for commenting on earlier drafts of thispaper.1Quaest. conv. 1.4.3.621c, 4.Proem. 660ab; Cons. ad ux. 610a; Sept. sap. conv. 156cd, 158c.Cf. S.-T. Teodorsson, 1989, p. 102; 1999, pp. 66-9; A. G. Nikolaidis, 1999, p. 342 n.17.2The banquet is not presented as typically Persian. In the Quaest. conv. Plutarch sometimesdiscusses special features of the Persian dinner, which do not specifically appear here. E.g.,1.1.613a (Persians drink and dance with their concubines rather than with their wives); 1.4.620c(the ability of Cyrus the Younger to hold his wine; cf. Reg. et imp. apophth. 173e); 2.1.629e-630a(many questions posed at the Persian banquets of Cyrus the Great; cf. X., Cyr. 5.2.18 ); 7.9.714a,d (deliberation on issues of state over wine, a custom no less Greek than Persian; cf. Hdt. 1.133;Str. 15.3.20). A rather different approach to the text of Plutarch and to this scene in particular ispresented by Binder, C., Plutarchs Vita des Artaxerxes: Ein historischer Kommentar, Berlin, 2008,244 (“reine Fiktion”)3On this battle see J. Kromayer, 1924; J. K. Anderson, 1974, pp. 106 sqq.; P. A. Rahe,1980; J. M. Bigwood, 1983; G. Wylie, 1992; R. B. Stevenson, 1997, pp. 84-93; P. Briant,2002, pp. 627-30.4Art. 11.5: καὶ παρατρέχων νεανίας Πέρσης ὄνομα Μιθριδάτης ἀκοντίῳ βάλλει τὸν131
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Philip A. St a d t e r is Professor
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