Lucian / with an English translation by A.M. Harmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucian, of Samosata, author.

Contributor:

Harmon, A. M. (Austin Morris), translator.

Kilburn, K., translator.

Macleod, M. D., translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 14, 54, 130, 162, 302, 430-432.

Loeb Classical Library ; 14, 54, 130, 162, 302, 430-432

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Lucian, of Samosata.

Lucian.

Satire, Greek.

Greece.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Lucian (c. 120-190 CE), apprentice sculptor then travelling 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. 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 satirizes 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) and The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party) (both in Loeb Classical Library volume no. 14); Dialogues of the Gods (a reductio ad absurdum of traditional mythology) and Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes) (both in Loeb no. 431); Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves) and Timon (the problems of being rich) (Loeb no. 54); The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers) and Twice Accused (Lucian's defense of his literary career) (Loeb no. 130); and, if by Lucian, The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass) (Loeb no. 432).

Contents:

v. I. Phalaris. Hippias, or, The bath. Dionysus. Heracles. Amber, or, The swans. The fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. The hall. My native land. Octogenarians. A true story. Slander. The consonants at law. The carousal (Symposium)

v. II. 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

v. III. The dead come to life, or, The fisherman. The double indictment, or, Trials by jury. On sacrifices. The ignorant book-collector. The dream, or, Lucian's career. The parasite, parasitic an art. The lover of lies, or, The doubter. The judgement of the goddesses. On salaried posts in great houses

v. IV. Anacharsis, or, Athletics. Menippus, or, The descent into Hades. On funerals. A professor of public speaking. Alexander the false prophet. Essays in portraiture. Essays in portraiture efended. The goddesse of Surrye

v. V. The passing of Peregrinus. The runaways. Toxaris, or, Friendship. The dance. Lexiphanes. The eunuch. Astrology. The mistaken critic. The parliament of the gods. The tyrannicide. Disowned

v. VI. How to write history. The Dipsads. Saturnalia. Herodotus, or, Aëtion. Zeuxis, or, Antiochus. A slip of the tongue in greeting. Apology for the "Salaried posts in great houses". Harmonides. A conversation with Hesiod. A Sycthian, or, The council. Hermotinus, or, Concerning the sects. The one who said, "You're a Prometheus in words". The ship, or, the wishes

v. VII. Dialogues of the dead. Dialogues of the sea-gods. Dialogues of the gods. Dialogues of the courtesans

v. VIII. The sham Sophist, or, The solecist. Lucius, or, The ass. Affairs of the heart (Amores). In praise of Demosthenes. Halcyon. Gout, and, Swift-of-foot. The cynic. The patriot (Philopatris). Charidemus. Nero. Epigrams.

Notes:

Vol. VI with an English translation by K. Kilburn, v. VII-VIII with an English translation by M.D. MacLeod.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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Print version: Lucian, of Samosata. Works.

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