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One of the best written and most amusing treatises of antiquity is Lucian's True History, forming a rather long narrative in two books, which suggeste...
True Stories or True Fictions is a parody of travel tales, by the Greek-speaking Assyrian author Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about ...
From the Greek
Complete with Exceptions Specified in the Preface
The Works of Lucian of Samosata Lucian - The Works of Lucian of Samosata Volume 01,02,03 Complete. - The Vision, A Literary Prometheus, Nigrinus, Tria...
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition....
A True Story Lucian - Lucian of Samosata (125c.180) was a Greek satirist of Syrian or Assyrian extraction, and True History is perhaps his most well-k...
True History (2nd century C.E.) is a satirical novel by Lucian. Written in ancient Greek, True History is thought to be the first work of science fict...
With illustrations by William Strang, J B Clark and Aubrey Beardsley....
Lucian was a particularly wry satirist, though writing in the 2nd Century, his parody of Homer and Herodotus remains eminently readable and enjoyable....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
Lucius, or the Ass
True History, Lucian's best-known and most entertaining work, is a parody of the tall stories of fantastic journeys narrated by famous poets and histo...
an intermediate Greek reader
The aim of this book is to make Lucian's A True Story accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are ...
The Syrian Goddess Lucian - On the Syrian Goddess is a Greek treatise of the second century AD which describes religious cults practiced at the temple...
The novel is a satire of outlandish tales which had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those which presented fantastic or mythical events ...
From the Greek, Volume 1
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
"Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself and never does. The Bird...
From the Greek, with the Comments and Illustrations of Wieland and Others
It is not to be understood that all statements here made are either ascertained facts or universally admitted conjectures. The introduction is intende...
This is a selection of pieces by the Greek satirist Lucian. Lucian invented the comic dialogue as a satiric tool, and had immense influence on many la...
Complete With Exceptions Specified in the Pref
This selection from the writings of the second century AD satirist Lucian is aimed atbeginning and intermediate students of ancient Greek. It consists...