Selected satires of Lucian
The unsurpassed satirist of the ancient era was a young Syrian named Lucian, who, writing in Greek in the second century A.D., combined wit, irony, fearless candor, and exuberant comic fantasy to create the triumphantly irreverent dialogues and stories contained in this book. His genial mockery, aim...
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Chiago,
Aldine Pub. Co
[c1962]
Chicago, AldineTransaction, [c1962] New Brunswick [N.J.] : [2008] New Brunswick [N.J.] : [2008] |
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Table of Contents:
- A Bit of Autobiography
- My Dream (Somnium) 3
- Two Romances
- A True Story (Verae Historiae) 13
- Lucius, the Ass (Asinus) 58
- Zeus's World
- Dialogues of the Gods (Dialogi Deorum) 99
- 7 Hephaestus and Apollo 99
- 24 Hermes and Maia 100
- 2 Eros and Zeus 102
- 4 Zeus and Ganymede 103
- 6 Hera and Zeus 107
- 9 Poseidon and Hermes 110
- 20 The Judgment of Paris 112
- Dialogues of the Sea-Gods (Dialogi Marini) 121
- 1 Doris and Galatea 121
- 6 Triton, Poseidon, Amymone 123
- Prometheus 125
- Zeus the Opera Star (Zeus Tragoedus) 136
- Pluto's World
- A Voyage to the Underworld (Cataplus) 175
- Dialogues of the Dead (Dialogi Mortuorum) 194
- 1 Diogenes and Pllux 194
- 4 Hermes and Charon 196
- 10 Charon, Hermes, and Shades 198
- 22 Charon, Menippus, Hermes 203
- 18 Menippus and Hermes 205
- 20 Menippus, Aeacus, and Shades 207
- 2 Croesus, Pluto, Menippus 212
- Man's World
- Men
- Charon 217
- Timon 239
- Alexander the Quack Prophet 267
- Maids
- Dialogues of the Courtesans (Dialogi Meretricii) 301
- 3 Philinna and her Mother 301
- 5 Clonarium and Leaena 303
- 6 Crobyle and Corinna 305
- 7 Musarium and her Mother 308
- 11 Tryphaena and Charmides 311
- Philosophers
- Philosophies for Sale (Vitarum Auctio) 314
- The Fisherman (Piscator) 334
- The Death of Peregrinus (De Morte Peregrini) 364