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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]
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 ...
True Story, an American magazine founded in 1919; A True Story, a satirical novel by Lucian of Samosata that is sometimes considered the oldest work of science fiction; True Story: A Novel, a 1994 book by Bill Maher
Lucian recommended instead the virtues of clear narration, and the valorisation of truth. [4] He argued that the historian should write for all times, as “a free man, fearless, incorruptible, the friend of truth”; [ 5 ] and held up the work of Thucydides as the legislative template for all subsequent historians. [ 6 ]
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Rohde points out several references to the Pythagorean religion, choosing not to interpret the novel exclusively as a mystery book. If the relationship between Lucian's A True Story and the Wonders beyond Thule is undisputed, what is the nature of the True Histories parody? Is the ridicule directed against the dizzy genre of pseudohistorical ...