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"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 t...

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Main Author: Λουκιανός ο Σαμοσατεύς, π. 120-π. 190 (συγγραφέας)
Other Authors: Thonemann, Peter, 1978- (επιμελητής, μεταφραστής)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2026-
Series:Loeb classical library
Subjects:
Λουκιανός ο Σαμοσατεύς, > π. 120-π. 190 > Μεταφράσεις στα Αγγλικά.
Σάτιρα, Ελληνική.
Διάλογοι, Ελληνικοί
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Volume 2:
Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. 1-2. Phalaris I-II
  • 3. Hippias, or, The bath
  • 4. Dionysus (Bacchus; Bacch.)
  • 5. Heracles (Hercules)
  • 6. On amber, or, The swans (Electrum)
  • 7. Encomium of the fly (Praise of the fly; Muscae encomium; Musc. laud.)
  • 8. The philosophy of Nigrinus (Nigr.)
  • 9. Life of Demonax (Dem.)
  • 10. On the hall (De domo)
  • 11. Encomium of the fatherland (Praise of my native land; Patriae encomium; Patr. enc.)
  • *12. The long-lived (Octogenarians; Macrobii)
  • 13-14. True stories I-II (A true story; True histories; Vera(e) historia(e); VH)
  • 15. On not readily believing slander (Calumniae non temere credendum; Cal.)
  • 16. The lawsuit of the consonants; Signa against tau; Before the seven vowels (The consonants at law; Lis consonantium; Iudicium vocalum)
  • 17.Symposium, or, The Lapiths (The Carousal; Convivium)
  • Volume II. 19. The downward journey, or, The tyrant (A voyage to the underworld; Cataplus; Cat.)
  • 20. Zeus refuted (Zeus catechized; Jupiter confutatus; Iup. conf.)
  • The tragic Zeus (Zeus rants; Jupiter tragoedus; Iup. trag.)
  • The dream, or, The rooster (The cock; Gallus)
  • Prometheus
  • Icaromenippus, or, Above the clouds
  • Timon, or, The misanthrope
  • Charon, or, The spectators (The overseers; Contemplantes; Contempl.)
  • Sale of lives (Sale of philosophies; Philosophers for sale; Vitarum auctio; Vit. auct.)
  • Volume III. 28. The dead come to life, or, The fisherman (Revivescentes; Piscator; Pisc.)
  • 29. The twice accused (The double ndictment; Bis accusatus)
  • 30. On sacrifices (De sacrificiis; Sacr.)
  • 31. Against the ignorant book collector (Adversus indoctum; Adv. ind.)
  • 32. On the dream, or, The life of Lucian (Lucian's career; Somnium sive vita Luciani; Somn.)
  • 33. On the parasite, that parasitism is an art (De parasito)
  • 34. The lover of lies, or, The doubter (The lovers of lies; Philopseudes/-eis)
  • 35. The judgment of the goddesses (Dearum iudicium)
  • 36. On hired companions (On salaried posts in great houses; On hirelings; De mercede conductis potentium familiaribus; Merc. cond.)
  • Volume IV. 37. Anacharsis, or, On gymnasia (Athletics)
  • 38. Menippus, or, The, oracle of the dead (Necyomantia; Nec.)
  • 40. On grief (On funerals; De luctu)
  • 41. The teacher of rhetoric (A professor of public speaking; Rhetorum praeceptor; Rhet. praec.)
  • 42. Alexander, or, The false prophet
  • 43. Images (Essays in portraiture; Imagines)
  • 50. In defense of images (Pro imaginibus)
  • 44. On the Syrian goddess (De dea Syria)
  • Volume V. 55. On the death of Peregrinus (De morte Peregrini)
  • 56. The runaways (Fugitivi; Fug.)
  • 57. Toxaris, or, Friendship
  • 45. On dance (On the dance; De saltatione; Salt.)
  • 46. Lexiphanes
  • 47. The eunuch (Eunuchus)
  • *48. On astrology (De astrologia)
  • 51. The mistaken critic, or, Concerning the word apophras (Pseudologistes; Pseudologista)
  • 52. The council of the gods (The parliament; The assembly; Deorum concilium)
  • 53. The tyrannicide
  • 54. Disowned (Abdicatus)
  • Volume VI. 59. How to write history (Quomodo historia conscribenda sit; Quom. hist. conscr.)
  • 60. On the dipsads
  • 61. Saturnalia
  • 62, Herodotus, or, Aëtion
  • 63. Zeuxis, or, Antiochos
  • 64. In defense of a slip of the tongue in greeting (Pro lapsu inter salutandum)
  • 65. Apology (Apologia)
  • 66. Harmonides
  • 67. A dialogue with Hesiod
  • 68. The Scythian, or, The proxenos (Scytha)
  • 70. Hermotimus, or, On philosophical schools
  • 71. To the one who said you are a Prometheus in words (A literary Prometheus; Prometheus es in verbis)
  • 73. The ship, or, The wishes (Navigium seu vota; Nav.)
  • Volume VII. 77. Dialogues of the dead (Dialogi mortuorum)
  • 78. Dialogues of the sea-gods (Dialogi maritimi)
  • 79. Dialogues of the gods (Dialogi deorum)
  • 80. Dialogues of the courtesans (Dialogi meretricii)
  • Volume VIII. *18. The false sophist, or, The solecist (The pseudo-sophist; The sham sophist; Soloecista; Pseudosophistes)
  • *39. Lucius, or, The ass (Asinus)
  • *49. Loves (Affairs of the heart; Amores)
  • *58. Encomium of Demosthenes (Dem. encom.)
  • **72. Halcyon, or, On metamorphoses
  • *69. Gout (Podagra)
  • **74. Swift-of- foot (Ocypus)
  • *76. The Cynic (Cynicus)
  • **82. Philopatris, or, The pupil (The patriot)
  • **83. Charidemus, or, On beauty
  • **84 Nero, or, On the digging of the isthmus
  • **85. Epigrams.

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