Trips to the Moon
Trips to the Moon

Author: Samosata Lucian

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 3387339038

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Lucian's True History: A Novel Written in the Second Century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking Author of Assyrian Descent, and a Sat
Lucian's True History: A Novel Written in the Second Century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking Author of Assyrian Descent, and a Sat

Author: Lucian Of Samosata

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9782491251697

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A True History is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking author of Assyrian descent. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.

Culture and Society in Lucian
Culture and Society in Lucian

Author: C. P. Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780674181311

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C. P Jones examines Lucian's work, setting this brilliant writer in the social and intellectual context of an age that proved pivotal in Greco-Roman history. The result is a fresh portrait of Lucian and a vivid picture of a society whose outward assurance masked uncertainty and the onset of profound change.

Dialogues of the Gods
Dialogues of the Gods

Author: Baudelaire Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780578001678

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By the time of Lucian, popular religion had ceased to hold much influence over the hearts of the cultured classes. Philosophy was the new God, but there were efforts in some circles to divert men's minds from the philosophical sects and restore a sort of unorthodox faith in the old religion. Against this artificial revival of mythological faith, Lucian pitted the influence of his tremendous satirical powers. In the "Dialogues of the Gods," he pulls the curtain aside-exposing the Gods as they engage in private disputes, domestic brawls, and love affairs, with their jealousies and scandals, their paltry strifes and petty motives. The lesson is simple: Can one worship beings with such weaknesses, such foibles, and such scandalous and immoral lives? This new translation by Baudelaire Jones breathes fresh life into ancient deities such as Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Aphrodite, Poseidon, and Athena, revealing complex, contradictory, sex-obsessed creatures that modern mortals can surely relate to.

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Author: Daniel S. Richter

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0199837473

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The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g., gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the classical traditions and early Christianity).