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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 ]
Illustration from 1894 by William Strang depicting a battle scene from Book One of Lucian's novel A True Story Lucian was one of the earliest novelists in Western civilization. In A True Story ( Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα ), a fictional narrative work written in prose, he parodies some of the fantastic tales told by Homer in the Odyssey ...
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]
In 1894, a new translation of Lucian’s True History, with illustrations by Beardsley, William Strang, and J. B. Clark, was privately printed in an edition of 251 copies. [18] Beardsley had six years of creative output, which can be divided into several periods, identified by the form of his signature.
William Strang was an established land and railroad developer when he first envisioned the idea of an interurban streetcar line connecting downtown Kansas City to Johnson County as early as 1903, while visiting his mother in Kansas City. [3] Strang bought 600 acres of rural land in 1905, founding and developing the suburb of Overland Park. [4]