ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that any person who is characterized as a trimistiro is a strategic user of reflexivity, who aims at legitimizing the moral judgments he or she makes about others, and about him/herself, through rhetorically manipulating social experience and community knowledge. It discusses the persons embodying the notion of trimistiro as social critics and to their practices as enactments of social criticism, because by denouncing specific covillagers as moral offenders they implicitly reprehend the social structures these people represent. The trimistira appear to be the protagonists of moral and social criticism in Olymbos. They express reasoned opinions on any matter of concern to the community, and pass judgment on its social value. The trimistira-critics judge social structures or institutions as embodied activities, assessing their value in relation to the moral worth of the persons engaged in them.
