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Selected Satires of Lucian

Selected Satires of Lucian

Lucian
Casson, Lionel

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0393004430
ISBN13: 9780393004434
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 1 1968
Pages: 398
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection.

A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he also excelled in straight narrative, as in the elaborate spoof A True Story and the old folk tale outrageously retold, Lucius, the Ass. His skeptical mind and imaginative irony have influenced generations of artists and writers, and now in Professor Casson's new translations can be freshly enjoyed today.

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