ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that along with the depth of Jewish imagery connecting the eschatological banquet with the inclusion of the Gentiles; the writer of Luke's gospel is also addressing an equally detailed wealth of pagan banqueting imagery from various Greek and Roman literary and iconographical sources. The recent interest in disability and deformity in the ancient world has highlighted that in the Greco-Roman world there was a general interest in people, as well as animals, with unusual physical characteristics. This entertainment may have taken the form of music, such as singing or playing stringed instruments, or perhaps dancing, acrobatics, acting, and mime, or even comedic acts, which included the kind of repartee we have already heard about it. Fehr states the following about the akletoi: Fehr goes on to say that in addition to the literary sources, the proof of the existence of akletoi can be seen in the artwork of the ancient world.
