The Ichthyophagia (Fish-Eating) Dialogue

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The Ichthyophagia (Fish-Eating) Dialogue is a humanist Latin conversational text from Erasmus’s *Colloquia* that humorously explores themes of diet, morality, and everyday life through a dialogue about eating fish.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin text
Renaissance work
dialogue
humanist text
literary work
associatedWith Erasmian humanism
linked to: Christian humanism

Northern Renaissance
audience educated lay readers
students of Latin
author Desiderius Erasmus
culturalContext Catholic dietary regulations
pre-Reformation Europe
didacticFunction language learning
moral instruction
religious reflection
genre colloquy
comic dialogue
didactic literature
intendedUse Latin conversation practice
school text
language Latin
literaryCollection Erasmus’s Colloquia
literaryMovement Christian humanism
literaryPurpose to entertain
to instruct
to provoke moral reflection
literaryTechnique comic exaggeration
everyday speech
irony
mainTheme diet
everyday life
fasting practices
food customs
morality
religious observance
social satire
medium print
narrativeForm dialogue
partOf Colloquia
period early 16th century
subjectMatter Christian ethics
Lenten dietary rules
eating fish
tone humorous
satirical
workIn Erasmus’s Colloquies
workOf Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
linked to: Desiderius Erasmus

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Colloquia hasPart The Ichthyophagia (Fish-Eating) Dialogue