Lucian Volume VI_图书大全
Lucian Volume VI
ISBN: 9780674994744
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: January 1959
页数: 512
定价: $24.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Volume 6
This volume includes: How to Write History; Dipsads; Saturnalia; Herodotus or Aetion; Zeuxis or Antiochus; Slip of the Tongue in Greeting; Apology for the "Salaried Posts in Great Houses"; Harmonides; Conversation with Hesiod; Scythian or Consul; Hermotimus or Concerning the Sects; To one who said "You're a Prometheus in Words"; Ship or Wishes.
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
Preface
List Of Lucian’s Works
How To Write History
The Dipsads
Saturnalia
Herodotus Or Aetion
Zeuxis Or Antiochus
A Slip Of The Tongue In Greeting
Apology For The ’Salaried Posts In Great Houses’
Harmonides
A Conversation With Hesiod
The Scythian Or The Consul
Hermotimus Or Concerning The Sects
To One Who Said, ’You’re A Prometheus In Words’
The Ship Or The Wishes
Index
