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Lucian's True Story inspired Cyrano de Bergerac, whose writings later served as inspiration for Jules Verne. [145] The German satirist Christoph Martin Wieland was the first person to translate the complete works of Lucian into German [151] and he spent his entire career adapting the ideas behind Lucian's writings for a contemporary German ...
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]
A satire on contemporary oratory. Ἀλέξανδρος ἢ Ψευδόμαντις Alexander Alexander the False Prophet: An account of the fraudulent prophet Alexander of Abonoteichus. Εἰκόνες Imagines Essays in Portraiture (Images) A eulogy of Panthea, the mistress of the Roman emperor Lucius Verus. Critics have doubted the sincerity ...
The Works of Lucian of Samosata at sacred-texts.com; Loeb Classical Library, vol. 3/8 of Lucian's works Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, with facing Greek text, at ancientlibrary.com "Dialogues of the Gods - Dialogi deorum". World Digital Library (in Latin) A.M. Harmon: Introduction to Lucian of Samosata at tertullian.org
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in a copy owned by Erasmus himself. The Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; Folly swipes at every part of society, from lovers to princes to inventors ...
The Passing of Peregrinus or The Death of Peregrinus (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Περεγρίνου Τελευτῆς; Latin: De Morte Peregrini) is a satire by the Syrian Greek writer Lucian in which the lead character, the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, takes advantage of the generosity of Christians and lives a disingenuous life before burning himself at the Olympic Games of 165 AD.
A Nabataean depiction of the goddess Atargatis dating from sometime around 100 A.D., roughly seventy years before Lucian (or possibly Pseudo-Lucian) wrote The Syrian Goddess; currently housed in the Jordan Archaeological Museum A painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti completed in 1877 depicting Atargatis, the goddess described in On the Syrian Goddess
Glycon, also spelled Glykon (Ancient Greek: Γλύκων Glýkōn, gen: Γλύκωνος Glýkōnos), was an ancient snake god.He had a large and influential cult within the Roman Empire in the 2nd century, with contemporary satirist Lucian providing the primary literary reference to the deity.