Lucian: Phalaris. Hippias or the Bath. Dionysus. Heracles. Amber or the Swans. the Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. the Hall. My Native Land. Octogenarians. a ... the Lapiths (Loeb Classical Library, Band 14) - Hardcover

Lucian, Of Samosata

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674990153 ISBN 13: 9780674990159

Verlag: LOEB, 1913

Inhaltsangabe

Satire blends with comic art in Lucian's tales, fantasies, and dialogues. With ebullient wit he mocks teachers of literature, the various philosophical schools, popular religions, historians and writers, the Olympian gods, and the foibles of mortals. In The Dream he jocularly recounts his own career. Native of Samosata on the Euphrates, Lucian traveled widely in the Roman Empire as far as Gaul. His 80 extant works (published here in 8 volumes) offer insight on the intellectual world of the second century CE along with mischievous and sophisticated entertainment.

From Lucian comes a comic view of the Greek symposium, in his piece titled Carousal in Harmon's translation. The great satirist crowds into his dinner party Stoics, Epicureans, Peripatetics, and Cynics--but there is as much high-spirited clowning as philosophy to be relished here. This first of the eight-volume edition of Lucian contains fourteen other pieces, including one of the earliest examples of science fiction, A True Story, the tallest of tall stories about a voyage to the moon.

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Austin Morris Harmon (1878-1950) was Professor of Classics at Yale University.

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• Verlag: LOEB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1913
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674990153
• ISBN 13: 9780674990159
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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