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grbs-7761	Anderson, Graham	Lucian and the Authorship of De Saltatione	1977	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5354	248	64	De Salt. also focuses attention on the solo performer, who figures frequently in Lucian's similes and anecdotes from the stage.9 And above all the author of De Salt. has found an entirely new angle from which to attack tragedy: instead of condemning a pageant of ranting actors, he has the opportunity to prove that even a single performer in a dumb­ show can do better! It is not necessary to assume that there was a pantomime theme based on this, though the possibility is certainly not excluded; but it would be a passage which a sophist might be expected to know for other reasons as an exercise in CVYKptctC. Lucian does not use all the rest of the material which occurs in this section of De Salt., but he does exploit a cross-section of each 'block' of mythology sufficiently large to suggest that he would have been aware of the remainder.22 The author of De Salt. introduces an unusual element into the story of Polycrates, probably by confus­ ing the tyrant's brother with his daughter (54): Harmon insists that Lucian knew his Herodotus too well to make such a mistake (LCL V p.261), but the version of Polycrates' death at Charon 14 is not quite accurate,23 and in the same dialogue Lucian transposes Tellus of Athens and Cleobis and Biton in Solon's list of happy men (10).	cache/grbs-7761.pdf	txt/grbs-7761.txt