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Works: The Passing of Peregrinus. the Runaways. Toxaris or Friendship. the Dance. Lexiphanes. the Eunuch. Astrology. the Mistaken Critic. the ... Disowned (Loeb Classical Library Volume 5) - Hardcover

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Lucian

 
9780674993334: Works: The Passing of Peregrinus. the Runaways. Toxaris or Friendship. the Dance. Lexiphanes. the Eunuch. Astrology. the Mistaken Critic. the ... Disowned (Loeb Classical Library Volume 5)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674993330 ISBN 13: 9780674993334
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1987

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Lucian (ca. 120?190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling 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 satirises 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 stories 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 defence of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass).

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Lucian is in eight volumes.

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

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674993330
ISBN 13 
9780674993334
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
546
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