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This volume gathers translations of satirical dialogues, essays, and declamations that lampoon myth, philosophy, and rhetorical fashion. It opens with a preface and introduction and presents imaginative conversations among gods, sea‑deities, and the dead, alongside Menippus‑style fragments, a mock voyage to the underworld, and autobiographical or rhetorical pieces. Across varied registers the works employ irony, parody, and learned allusion to critique sophists, religious credos, literary affectation, and human pretensions, balancing comic invention with pointed intellectual skepticism.

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Title: The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

Author: of Samosata Lucian

Translator: F. G. Fowler

H. W. Fowler

Release date: August 1, 2004 [eBook #6327]
Most recently updated: April 8, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Beth Constantine, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA

Complete with exceptions specified in the preface

TRANSLATED BY

H. W. FOWLER AND F. G. FOWLER

IN FOUR VOLUMES

What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought into the barren domestic soil? except indeed planting thought of your own, which the fewest are privileged to do.—Sarlor Resartus.

At each flaw, be this your first thought: the author doubtless said something quite different, and much more to the point. And then you may hiss me off, if you will.—LUCIAN, Nigrinus, 9.

(LUCIAN) The last great master of Attic eloquence and Attic wit.—Lord Macaulay.

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