Lucian, Volume VI

Lucian (ca. 120-190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.

This Volume contains: How to Write History, The Dipsads, Saturnalia, Herodotus or Aetion, Zeuxis or Antiochus, A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting, Apology for the “Salaried Posts in Great Houses”, Harmonides, A Conversation With Hesiod, The Scythian or the Consul, Hermotimus or Concerning the Sects, To One Who Said, “you’re a Prometheus in Words”, The Ship or the Wishes.