Lucian, Volume IV: Anacharsis or Athletics. Menippus or the Descent Into Hades. on Funerals. a Professor of Public Speaking. Alexander th [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:Greek, Ancient (To 1453)

ISBN:0674991796

ISBN13:9780674991798

Release Date:January 1925

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:432 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 4.5" x 6.7"

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Lucian, Volume IV: Anacharsis or Athletics. Menippus or the Descent Into Hades. on Funerals. a Professor of Public Speaking. Alexander th [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

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