Satire blends with comic art in Lucian's tales, fantasies, and
dialogues. With ebullient wit he mocks teachers of literature, the
various philosophical schools, popular religions, historians and
writers, the Olympian gods, and the foibles of mortals. In "The
Dream" he jocularly recounts his own career. Native of Samosata on
the Euphrates, Lucian traveled widely in the Roman Empire as far as
Gaul. His 80 extant works (published here in 8 volumes) offer
insight on the intellectual world of the second century CE along
with mischievous and sophisticated entertainment.
From Lucian comes a comic view of the Greek symposium, in his
piece titled "Carousal" in Harmon's translation. The great satirist
crowds into his dinner party Stoics, Epicureans, Peripatetics, and
Cynics--but there is as much high-spirited clowning as philosophy
to be relished here. This first of the eight-volume edition of
Lucian contains fourteen other pieces, including one of the
earliest examples of science fiction, "A True Story," the tallest
of tall stories about a voyage to the moon.
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