Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the CourtesansCondition: NewEAN: 9780674994751ISBN: 9780674994751Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/01/1961Language: EnglishItem Height: 162mmItem Length: 108mmItem Weight: 308gAuthor: LucianTranslator: M. D. MacleodContributor: M. D. Macleod (Translated by)ISBN-10: 0674994752Description: Antiquity’s satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120–190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling 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 tales about a voyage to the moon), Dialogues of the Gods (a "reductio ad absurdum" of traditional mythology), Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes), Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party), Timon (the problems of being rich), Twice Accused (Lucian's defense of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Lucian is in eight volumes.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Loeb Classical LibraryRelease Year: 1961 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of th
Title: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of th
EAN: 9780674994751
ISBN: 9780674994751
Release Date: 01/01/1961
Release Year: 1961
Translator: M. D. Macleod
Contributor: M. D. Macleod (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0674994752
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Book Title: Lucian, Volume VII : Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 1961
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Satire, Ancient & Classical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 6.4 in
Author: Lucian
Item Width: 4.2 in
Book Series: Loeb Classical Library
Format: Hardcover
