Selected Satires of Lucian by Lucian of Samosata

Selected Satires of Lucian

Lucian of Samosata with Lionel Casson (Translator)

400 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction classics short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
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A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he...

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