Selected Satires of Lucian

by Lionel Casson and Lucian .

Book Overview

The unsurpassed satirist of the ancient era was a young Syrian named Lucian, who, writing in Greek in the second century a.d., combined wit, irony, fearless candor, and exuberant comic fantasy to create the triumphantly irreverent dialogues and stories contained in this book. His genial mockery, aimed at man's omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date. The jabs he gave the hypocrites; grandstanders, fakers and boobs of the ancient world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138532371
• ISBN13: 9781138532373
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"