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Hardcover Lucian, Volume VIII: Soloecista. Lucius or the Ass. Amores. Halcyon. Demosthenes. Podagra. Ocypus. Cyniscus. Philopatris. Charidemus. Nero [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)] Book

ISBN: 0674994760

ISBN13: 9780674994768

Lucian, Volume VIII: Soloecista. Lucius or the Ass. Amores. Halcyon. Demosthenes. Podagra. Ocypus. Cyniscus. Philopatris. Charidemus. Nero [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

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...

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