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Lucian's treatise On the Syrian Goddess is a detailed description of the cult of the Syrian goddess Atargatis at Hierapolis (now Manbij). [44] It is written in a faux-Ionic Greek and imitates the ethnographic methodology of the Greek historian Herodotus, [ 44 ] which Lucian elsewhere derides as faulty. [ 44 ]
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
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
Lucian ironically proves that parasitism is the highest of all art forms. Φιλοψευδὴς ἢ Ἀπιστῶν Philopseudes sive Incredulus The Lover of Lies, or The Doubter: A collection of tall tales, including a story similar to Sorcerer's Apprentice. Θεῶν Κρίσις Dearum Iudicium The Judgement of the Goddesses
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]
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.
An ancient Greek proverb connected to this story was μυίης θάρσος (literally 'the fly's boldness'), said for those who were of excessive boldness. [1]Similarly to the myth of the boy-turned-rooster Alectryon (also surviving in the works of Lucian) Myia's story is an aetiological myth which nonetheless does not link its protagonist to a specific Greek place or lineage, with a ...
Georges Dottin, Christian-Joseph Guyonvarc'h and Françoise Le Roux [] have proposed to derive the god's name derives from Greek ὄγμος (ógmos, "furrow, path"). [1] [2]: 233 Though Lucian tell us that Ogmios is the name of the god "in their native tongue", Guyonvarc'h and Le Roux believe it is possible the name may have been adopted from Greek in the parts of Gaul where Greek was widely ...