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Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris. Hippias or the Bath. Dionysus. Heracles. Amber or the Swans. the Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. the Hall. My Native

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris. Hippias or the Bath. Dionysus. Heracles. Amber or the Swans. the Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. the Hall. My Native

Harmon, A. M.
Lucian

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Series: Loeb Classical Library, Book 14

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0674990153
ISBN13: 9780674990159
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 1 1913
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.99 Width: 4.59 Depth: 6.66
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Antiquity's satirist supreme.

Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.

Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in which he satirizes human folly, superstition, and hypocrisy. His aim was to amuse rather than to instruct. Among his best works are A True Story (the tallest of tall tales about a voyage to the moon), Dialogues of the Gods (a reductio ad absurdum of traditional mythology), Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes), Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party), Timon (the problems of being rich), Twice Accused (Lucian's defense of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass).

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