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A True History 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; Lucian of Samosata Project – Articles, timeline, maps, library, and themes; The book at Project Gutenberg; True History public domain audiobook at LibriVox
A True Story 1 (True History) One of Lucian's most famous works. A parody of travellers' tales. The narrator and his companions set out on a voyage and are lifted up by a giant waterspout and deposited on the Moon. There they find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between the king of the Moon and the king of the Sun.
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 ...
The mythical king Busiris appears as the leader of a revolt in Lucian's True History (2.23), written in the 2nd century CE.. In Paradise Lost, John Milton uses "Busiris" as the name of the Pharaoh of the Exodus, which suggests a comparison between Heracles' escape and the Israelites' escape from slavery.
Other etched portraits included those of Ernest Sichel and of his friend Joseph Benwell Clark, with whom Strang collaborated in illustrating Lucian's True History (1894) [3] Baron Munchausen (1895) and Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba (1896). Thomas Hardy, Sir Henry Newbolt, and other distinguished men also sat for Strang. Proofs from these ...
There are no clear distinctions of genre between the five 'romantic' novels and other works of Greek prose fiction, such as Lucian's True Story, the Alexander Romance and the Aesop Romance. B.P. Reardon has the following qualifications to define a novel "narrative fiction in prose—imaginative, creative literature, sufficiently similar to what ...
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The earliest depiction of life on the Moon in Lucian's True History included three-headed horse-vultures and vegetable birds. [11] [12] The near side of the Moon in Kepler's Somnium is inhabited by the earliest human-like lunar life in fiction, whereas the far side is inhabited by serpentine creatures.