Gli occhi e la lingua dello straniero. Satira e straniamento in Luciano di Samosata

The goal of this paper is to analyze the typical features of satire, in particular of estrangement, to be found in Lucian's works. When considering cynic Menippus, trying out impossible travels with the aim of satirical observation, we can observe that he shares the same estrangement with his author, Lucian, a Syrian from the Euphrates and a stranger in the Greek-Roman world as well as an outsider in the Second Sophistic. A good element of comparison is Anacharsis, the Scythian who arrives in Athens and who, being a foreigner, is in a better position to observe Greek institutions and Paideia from a different point of view, in order to exercise his parrhesia, i.e. freedom of speech, in front to Solon and the Athenians.