Lucian, Plato and Greek morals
By: by John Jay Chapman.
Contributors: Lucian, of Samosata.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Lucian, of Samosata -- Ethics.; Plato.; Dialogues, Greek -- Translations into English.; Satire, Greek -- Translations into English.; Greece -- Moral conditions.
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: "An essay in popular form, whose aim is really to call attention to the Flower and Harmon translations and thereby, ultimately, to Lucian himself."--Acknowledgment.
Table of contents: title: Introductory.; title: Lucian the man.; title: Illustrations: A journey to Hades.  Zeus a tragedian. The diner; title: out. Short imaginative dialogues. Greek painting. The household philosophers. The lover of lies. Lucian the agnostic. Death.; title: Lucian attacks pederasty.; title: Plato and Lucian contrasted.