Lucian (of Samosata.)

A collection of writings by the 2nd century satirist who ridiculed tyrants, philosophers, and even the gods, in his mock dialogues and prose narratives.

Selected Satires of Lucian

Ugo Montanari

di Luciano di Samosata

Storia vera

Obras completas de Luciano

Obras completas

Dialogues of Courtesans

Emily James SMITH

Selections from Lucian. Translated by Emily James Smith

Loukianou Samosateōs hapanta

Opera: Libelli 69-86

Lucianus Samosatensis

LUCIAN (c. 120-190 A.D.) 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 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 (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 turned into an ass).

Lucian: Phalaris I and II Hippias or the bath Dionysus Heracles Amber or the swans The fly Nigrinus Demonax The hall My native land Octogenarians A true story I and II Slander The consonants at law The carousal or the lapiths

Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-gods, and of the Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, the Ferry-boat, Etc

Lucian's Dialogues

The Works of Lucian

Lucian

Selections from Lucian

Herbert Augustus Strong

Being a Translation of Lucian's "De Dea Syria," : with a Life of Lucian

The Syrian Goddess

Loukianou Samosateōs Hapanta

Lucians von Samosata sämtliche werke

Edward Murphy

to which is added, a new literal translation in Latin, with notes in English

The select dialogues of Lucian

Dialogues

Complete with Exceptions Specified in the Preface

The Works of Lucian of Samosata

Lucian (of Samosata.)

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