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Lucian Volume III
ISBN: 9780674991446
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: January 1921
页数: 496
定价: $24.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Contents:
The Parasite, Parasitic an Art
The Lover of Lies or The Doubter
The Judgement of the Goddesses
On Salaried Posts in Great Houses
The Dead Come to Life or The Fisherman
The Double Indictment or Trials by Jury
On Sacrifices
The Ignorant Book-Collector
The Dream or Lucian's Career
作者简介
Lucian (ca. 120–190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling 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 his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in which he satirises human folly, superstition and hypocrisy. His aim was to amuse rather than to instruct. Among his best works are A True Story (the tallest of tall stories about a voyage to the moon), Dialogues of the Gods (a ’reductio ad absurdum’ of traditional mythology), Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes), Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party), Timon (the problems of being rich), Twice Accused (Lucian’s defence of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass).
目录
List Of Lucian’s Works
The Dead Come To Life Or The Fisherman
The Double Indictment Or Trials By Jury
On Sacrifices
The Ignorant Book-Collector
The Dream Or Lucian’s Career
The Parasite, Parasitic An Art
The Lover Of Lies Or The Doubter
The Judgement Of The Goddesses
On Salaried Posts In Great Houses
Index
