| #736868 in Books | Costa C D N | 2009-11-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.60 x7.60l,.48 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | Lucian Selected Dialogues||0 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By CHO WON KYUNG|TRIPLE EXCELLENT!!!|12 of 47 people found the following review helpful.| Discrediting Syria of her Lucian!|By Riad Matqualoon|Discrediting Syria of her Lucian Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics)
I have read this translation and I was shocked by its unfair and biased a|About the Author|C. D. N. Costa is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham.
The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only on the Greek world, but on later European writers such as Rabelais and Swift. His dialogues puncture the pretensions of pompous philosophers and describe the daily lives of Greek courtesans; they are peopled by politicians, historians, and ordinary citizens, as well as by gods and mythic figures. This l...
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