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Title	:	Selected Satires of Lucian
Author	:	Lucian of Samosata
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	April 17th 1968 by W. W. Norton Company
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Literature

Selected Satires of Lucian

Lucian of Samosata

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 121 Users | 12 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
ISBN:	0393004430 (ISBN13: 9780393004434)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.07 From 121 Users | 12 Reviews

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Worth it for the Little Nemo in Slumberland-esque "True Hisory."

Written in the mid-100's AD this book of Satires is a nice read. I love how he prefaces "A True Story" saying 'everything I'm about to tell you is a lie' and then spins a tale of weird creatures and strange lands influencing Gulliver's Travels or Hieronymus Bosch centuries later.His most famous story "Lucius, The Ass" must have been a predecessor to Kafka's "Metamorphosis".Many of the other satires I skimmed as Lucian is poking fun at the Roman gods which is so before-last-millennium. But

Kind of an uneven collection but still nice variety of writing. I think "Dialogues of the Dead", "Alexander the False Prophet" and "The Death of Peregrinus" standout. Might wanna brush up on Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" before tackling this one in that there are many (MANY!) references to them throughout.

Unfinished college thesis on this man... The original stand-up comic and sketch writer using Greek gods.



Lucian of Samosata is one of my absolute favorite classical authors. The renowned English writer Henry Fielding once called Lucian "almost... like the true father of humour" and I almost agree with that assessment. If not the "true father of humor," I think I would feel comfortable calling Lucian the "true father of satire." Lucian may have died in the late second century AD, but his works are never out of date. As long as there are people who believe in foolishness and other people who love to

Can't speak to the quality of translation, but I enjoyed it well enough. More research for my Ferryman novel.