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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:22:36 -0800
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: Re: Charondas (+ "meal-tub" query)

Jeffrey Gibson asks:
>Can anyone fill me in on the identity of Charondas Nomographus? [snip]

See Michael Gargarin's entry on him in OCD3.  He was a lawgiver for his
native Catana, Rhegium, etc., late 6C (probably).  See Aristotle Politics
1274a&b.  Aristotle believed that his main claim to fame was the invention
of suits for false witness.

But when I think of Charondas (in those rare moments I am not genuflecting
before the shrine of St. James [sc. Joyce]), I think of his superb
definition of the oikos: homosipuoi, "meal-tub-mates" (Ar. Pol. 1252b).

But wait: after all these years I have to confess that I'm just a bit
fuzzy on what the heck a "meal-tub" (sipuh) was.  What did it look like?
How was it used?  Funny, I don't seem to recall anything about "meal-tubs"
in "Courtesans and Fishcakes."

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound


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