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Selected Satires of Lucian - Translated and Edited by (Hardcover)
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Selected Satires of Lucian - Translated and Edited by (Hardcover)
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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omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date.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 can just as appropriately be administered to their
counterparts in the modern world. Lucian's most typical genre is a
parody of a Platonic dialogue, in which Zeus, Hermes, Eros, and
other Olympians jabber in undivine harassment as some clever mortal
(who very much resembles Lucian) is about to make scandalous fools
of them. He also excelled at straight narrative, his two most
famous tales being the elaborate science fiction spoof; "A True
Story," and an old folk tale retold outrageously, "Lucius the Ass."
His works were the product of an unrelentingly rational and
skeptical mind, and have had an incalculable effect on writers and
painters through the ages. Until this volume, the English language
reader of today to appreciate the importance and intelligence of
Lucian. No volume of representative selections in translation is in
print. There are satisfactory versions of the complete works, but
the reader who takes this long will most likely lose a good deal of
the sting of Lucian's needle. Lionel Cassen also illustrates the
full range of Lucian's subject matter and various literary forms
and when translating tried to focus on the Greek spirit as opposed
to the literal meaning.
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