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

Lucian

Extracts from Lucian

Dialogues with Lucian

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).

Selected Writings

Hetärengespräche des Lukian

Die Hetärengespräche

Sämtliche Werke

Lucians von Samosata Sämtliche Werke

Luciani Vera historia

Vera historia

Complete with Exceptions Specified in the Preface

The Works of Lucian of Samosata

Edited with Introduction and Notes for the Use of Middle Forms in Schools

Luciana Vora Historia

The Works of Lucian

M. D. Macleod

Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and for literary versatility, he is famous chiefly for the lively, cynical wit of the dialogues in which he satirizes human folly, superstition, and hypocrisy.

The Downward Journey or the Tyrant. Zeus Catechized. Zeus Rants. the Dream or the Cock. Prometheus. Icaromenippus or the Sky-Man. Timon or the Misanthrope. Charon or the Inspectors. Philosophies for Sale

Lucian, Volume II

Six Dialogues of Lucian

Lucian (of Samosata.)

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