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Lucian, Volume II
The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives
Harvard University Press
ISBN 978-0-674-99771-4
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Buch. Hardcover
2026
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 400 S.
Format (B x L): 10,8 x 16,2 cm
Verlag: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 978-0-674-99771-4
Weiterführende bibliografische Daten
Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Loeb Classical Library; 54
Produktbeschreibung
<p><b>Antiquity’s satirist supreme.</b>
Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160–190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once characterizes his writings, many of them intended for public performance, as a combination of dialogue and comedy, in truth the diversity of his extant works is startling, ranging from philosophic and moral dialogue to invective, from mythology to contemporary biography to high fantasy, from mock encomium to Herodotean ethnography, and from generic combinations to unclassifiable novelties, all infused with ebullient wit, elegant humor, and refined satire, and all delivered in sparkling style.
Included in the Loeb edition of Lucian are all of his approximately seventy-five authentic works together with those doubtfully attributed. Highlights of Volume II include <i>The Downward Journey</i>, a voyage to the underworld; <i>Timon</i>, on the problems of being a rich misanthrope; and <i>Sale of Lives</i>, in which great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves.
This edition, which replaces the original Loeb edition by A. M. Harmon (1915), offers text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.</p>
Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160–190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once characterizes his writings, many of them intended for public performance, as a combination of dialogue and comedy, in truth the diversity of his extant works is startling, ranging from philosophic and moral dialogue to invective, from mythology to contemporary biography to high fantasy, from mock encomium to Herodotean ethnography, and from generic combinations to unclassifiable novelties, all infused with ebullient wit, elegant humor, and refined satire, and all delivered in sparkling style.
Included in the Loeb edition of Lucian are all of his approximately seventy-five authentic works together with those doubtfully attributed. Highlights of Volume II include <i>The Downward Journey</i>, a voyage to the underworld; <i>Timon</i>, on the problems of being a rich misanthrope; and <i>Sale of Lives</i>, in which great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves.
This edition, which replaces the original Loeb edition by A. M. Harmon (1915), offers text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.</p>
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