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A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel [1] written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. [2]
William Strang RA (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling. Early life [ edit ]
William Strang, 1st Baron Strang GCB GCMG MBE (2 January 1893–27 May 1978) was a British diplomat who served as a leading adviser to the British Government from the 1930s to the 1950s and as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953.
William Strang illustration of Lucian's interplanetary giant spider battle. One frequently cited text is the Syrian-Greek writer Lucian of Samosata's 2nd-century satire True History, which uses a voyage to outer space and conversations with alien life forms to comment on the use of exaggeration within travel literature and debates.
Illustration from 1894 by William Strang depicting a battle scene from Book One of Lucian of Samosata's A True Story. The satirist Lucian of Samosata lived during the late second century AD. Lucian's works were incredibly popular during antiquity. Over eighty different writings attributed to Lucian have survived to the present day. [139]
In 1891, William Strang portrayed his friend Clark in an etching entitled "The Philosopher", [17] as noted in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. [8] In 1894, a new translation of Lucian of Samosata's True History, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, William Strang, and J. B. Clark, was privately printed in an edition of 251 copies. [18]
William George Knight faces more than a half-dozen charges in connection with the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, including felony charges of assault on a federal officer and obstruction of law ...
Balcaskie in Fife was seat of John Strang who died at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, the property then passed to the Moncreiffs in 1615, then to Sir William Bruce in 1665 and then to the Anstruthers in 1698. Much of Strang's original interior of the building survives but it has since been altered and extended.