Selected Satires of Lucian by Lionel Casson

Selected Satires of Lucian

Lionel Casson

400 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction classics short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 st...

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