Beschreibung:
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 stories contained in this book. His genial mockery, aimed at man's omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date. The jabs he gave the hypocrites; grandstanders, fakers and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts in the modern world.
A Bit of Autobiography My Dream; My Dream [ 1-2 ]; Two Romances A True Story Lucius, the Ass; A True Story [ 1.1-2 ]; Lucius, The Ass; Zeus's World; Zeus's World; Dialogues of the Gods [ 7.1-3 ]; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods [ 1.1-2 ]; Prometheus; Zeus The Opera Star; Pluto's World; Pluto's World; A Voyage to the Underworld [ 1-2 ]; Dialogues of the Dead [ 1.1-2 ]; Man's World; Charon; Timon [1-2]; Alexander the Quack Prophet; Dialogues of the Courtesans [ 3-1-2. ]; Philosophies For Sale [1-2; The Fisherman [1-2; The Death of Peregrinus