Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias : an essay in literary and cultural translation

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zappala, Michael O., Author.

Contributor:

Digitalia (Firm)

Series:

Scripta Humanistica Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lucian, of Samosata--Appreciation--Spain.

Lucian.

Lucian, of Samosata--Influence.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Satire, Spanish--History and criticism.

Satire, Spanish.

Spanish literature--Greek influences.

Humanists.

Spain--Intellectual life--1516-1700.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Scripta Humanistica 1990

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important diachronic study of the life and works of Lucian of Samosata investigates the varied images of the Sophist from Syria from late Antiquity to the seventeenth-century. Using sources in Patristic literature, Byzantine glosses, the Neo-Latin satire of the Quattrocento, the Vitae Luciani, and Golden Age texts, Zappala demonstrates how the writings of Lucian are fragmented into a series of "authors": the historiographer, the writer of fantasy, the moralist, the atheist, the stylist. The study illustrates the dynamic relationship between a fixed text and the cultural translation which "unfixes" that text and spins it out onto surprising, paradoxical recreations. Both in its sources and its treatment, this work is a groundbreaking study which illuminates previously unstudied areas of the continuing mutation of Classical literature in the European heritage.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-281-20708-X

9786611207083

OCLC:

1024249692