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Book Chapter
Cleitophon the Charlatan
2015
Overview
‘Ἐγὼ ταῦτα ἂν εἰδείην,’ ἔφη, ‘τοσαύτας ὕβρεις ἐξ Ἔρωτος παθών.’
‘I should know – having suffered such outrages from Eros!’ (1,2,1)¹
These are the very first words Cleitophon says, and, in them, he makes a claim to knowledge. If one is to assess whether, how, and to what extent Cleitophon is a charlatan, namely one who claims knowledge or expertise that he does not have, this utterance provides an obvious starting point: some ways of understanding it and its implications will be the focus of the second half of this paper. In the first, I will follow another line of
