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Lucian: Selected Dialogues, Hardback Book

Lucian: Selected Dialogues Hardback

Edited by C. D. N. (Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Birmingham) Costa

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A translation of fourteen of Lucian's dialogues, offering a cross-section of his styles and satirical targets, from serious polemic (Alexander, Peregrinus) to lighter squibs and character-portrayals (Dialogues of the Courtesans).

Also included are How to Write History and his most famous piece, A True History, a parody of the popular vogue for fabulous traveller's tales.

Each piece has a summary introduction, and notes to clarify obscure allusions in the text.

The Introduction examines in some detail Lucian's importance as a dominant Atticizer in the period of the Second Sophistic, as well as his extraordinarily widespread influence on later European literature.

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