PARAPLEIN é preciso: os dramas de cenare domi segundo Marcial e Luciano

The parasite, driven by gluttony and laziness, surfaced very early in the literature
of Classical Antiquity, reflecting a type common to various societies and eras. The constant interaction between literature and society, epitomised by the Comedy, but also evident in the permanent influence of the Homeric poems, generated philosophical debates and fixed in the memory parasitic figures, of which the Greek kolax and the Roman parasitus stand out. The changes in Roman society brought about by the advent of the imperial regime, along with the prevalence of wealth and luxury, created new contexts for the parasite, namely by devaluing the traditional status of the cliens and turning an invitation to dine with someone rich and powerful into a life purpose. In very close times, the satirical authors Martial and Lucian of Samosata reflected in a convergent way on this socially imposed and passively accepted slavery (seruitium), elaborating a sort of tragic-comic pathology of the Vrbs (Damon 1997), and emphasizing that only detachment and sobriety would bring freedom.