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)]

by Lucian of Samosata and Lucian

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"