Лукиан. Избранное

The work of the greatest satirist writer and thinker of late antiquity, Lucian of Samosata, left a noticeable mark on the history of literature. The works of the Syrian Lucian, written in ancient Greek, capture with great artistic power pictures of the social and spiritual life of the Greco-Roman world of the Antonines (2nd century).

Contents:

Prose: A Dream, or the Life of Lucian. To the man who called me the Prometheus of eloquence. Praise to the motherland. Conversations of the gods. Advice from the gods. Zeus is accused. Alexander, or the False Prophet. About the death of Peregrine. Conversations in the kingdom of the dead. Icaromenippus, or Flight Beyond the Clouds. Dream, or Rooster. Feast, or Lapiths. Biography of Demonakt. Toxarid, or Friendship. True story, or Never. Conversations of heterosexuals. Two loves. Praise the fly. How to write a story.

Poetry: Tragogout. Fleet-footed. Epigrams.