Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 1968
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780393004434
First sentence: When he was thirty-five or forty, Lucian, by then a well-known public lecturer, paid a visit to his home town-the local boy who had made good.
Description: A collection of writings by the 2nd century satirist who ridiculed tyrants, philosophers, and even the gods, in his mock dialogues and prose narratives.