"Lucian's genial mockery," writes Lionel Casson, "aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern." Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection. A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he also excelled in straight narrative, as in the elaborate spoof "A True Story" and the old folk tale outrageously retold, "Lucius, the Ass." His skeptical mind and imaginative irony have influenced generations of artists and writers, and now in Professor Casson's new translations can be freshly enjoyed today.

Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)

Literature & Fiction

Lionel Casson

Lucian, Of Samosata

Humor & Satire

W.W.Norton&Company

Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's: Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With Sundry Emblems Extracted From the Most Elegant Iacobus ... Nuptiall Songs, Anagrams and Acrosticks, ...

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Legare Street Press

Lucians Von Samosata Samtliche Werke (1789) (German Edition)

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Lucians Von Samosata Samtliche Werke (German Edition)

Wieland, Christoph Martin

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Kessinger Pub

Luciani Somnium, Charon, Piscator, et De luctu: with English notes

Heitland, William Emerton

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BiblioLife

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Luciani Somnium, Charon, Piscator, Et de Luctu: With English Notes

Gloukianou Samosatews@ Dialogoi Nalektoi. Walker's Selections from Lucian [&C.].

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Luciani Samosatensis Dialogorum selectorum libri duo. A Gulielmo Du-gardo recogniti, ... Cum interpretatione Latinâ, ... (Latin Edition)

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