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'Lucian's genial mockery, ' writes Lionel Casson, 'aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the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.'
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- Title Selected Satires of Lucian
- Author Lionel Casson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2008-05-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780202361925 / 0202361926
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 5.97 x 1.04 in (23.22 x 15.16 x 2.64 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Lucian, Satire, Greek
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008002641
- Dewey Decimal Code 884.01
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New. 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 His genial mockery, aimed at man's omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date.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; grandstanders, fakers and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts in the modern world. Lucian's most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, in which Zeus, Hermes, Eros, and other Olympians jabber in undivine harassment as some clever mortal (who very much resembles Lucian) is about to make scandalous fools of them. He also excelled at straight narrative, his two most famous tales being the elaborate science fiction spoof; "A True Story," and an old folk tale retold outrageously, "Lucius the Ass." His…
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