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In this paper, I explore the use Cynics make of the political vocabulary in matters of food consumption. By transferring political language into the context of commensality, the Cynics seem both to be influenced by and contribute to a literary tradition which considered sympotic and political qualities as analogues. However, with the Cynics, the role that sympotic imagery usually plays in political analysis is reversed. In fact, what matters for them is the “politics of food”.

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L’objet de cette étude est l’emploi que les Cyniques font du vocabulaire politique pour parler de la consommation de nourriture. En transposant le langage politique dans le domaine de la table, les Cyniques semblent à la fois être influencés par la tradition qui superpose usage symposial et polis et y contribuer. Cependant, avec eux, le rôle que jouent habituellement les images du banquet appliquées à l’analyse politique se voit renversé. En réalité, ce qui compte pour les Cyniques, c’est proprement la “politique de la table”.

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