1st Edition

Selected Satires of Lucian

By Lionel Casson Copyright 1962
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

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 His genial mockery, aimed at man's omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date. The jabs he gave the hypocrites;... Read more
A Bit of Autobiography My Dream; My Dream [ 1–2 ]; Two Romances A True Story Lucius, the Ass; A True Story [ 1.1–2 ]; Lucius, The Ass; Zeus’s World; Zeus’s World; Dialogues of the Gods [ 7.1–3 ]; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods [ 1.1–2 ]; Prometheus; Zeus The Opera Star; Pluto’s World; Pluto’s World; A Voyage to the Underworld [ 1–2 ]; Dialogues of the Dead [ 1.1–2 ]; Man’s World; Charon; Timon [1–2]; Alexander the Quack Prophet; Dialogues of the Courtesans [ 3–1-2. ]; Philosophies For Sale [1–2; The Fisherman [1–2; The Death of Peregrinus

Biography

Lionel Casson