The Works of Lucian of Samosota, Complete with Exceptions Specified in the Preface, in Four Volumes.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2330846
Spines faded. Bindings tights, pages clean and unmarked.
Complete in four volumes. A collection of works by the Syrian satirist who lampooned religion and paranormal superstitions. Translated from the original Greek by H.W. and F.G. Fowler. Includes: Preface; Introduction; The Vision; A Literary Prometheus; Nigrinus; Trial in the Court of Vowels; Timon the Misanthrope; Prometheus on Caucasus; Dialogues of the Gods; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods; Dialogues of the Dead; Menippus; Charon; Of Sacrifice; Sale of Creeds; The Fisher; Voyage to the Lower World; The Dependent Scholar; Apology for 'The Dependent Scholar'; A Slip of the Tongue in Salutation; Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies; Herodotus and Aetion; Zeuxis and Antiochus; Harmonides; The Scythian; The Way to Write History; The True History; The Tyrannicide; The Disinherited; Phalaris I; Phalaris II; Alexander the Oracle-Monger; Of Pantomime; Lexiphanes; Alphabetical Table of Contents; Life of Demonax; A Portrait-Study; Defence of the 'Portrait-Study'; Toxaris: A Dialogue of Friendship; Zeus Cross-Examined; Zeus Tragoedus; The Cock; Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition; The Double Indictment; The Parasite, a Demonstration That Sponging is a Profession; Anacharsis, a Discussion of Physical Training; Of Mourning; The Rhetorician's Vade Mecum; The Liar; Dionysus, an Introductory Lecture; Heracles, an Introductory Lecture; Swans and Amber; The Fly, an Appreciation; Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier; Alphabetical Table of Contents; Slander, a Warning; The Hall; Patriotism; Dipsas, the Thirst-Snake; A Word with Hesiod; The Ship: or, The Wishes; Dialogues of the Hetaerae; The Death of Peregrine; The Runaways; Saturnalia; Cronosolon; Saturnalian Letters I; Saturnalian Letters II; Saturnalian Letters III; Saturnalian Letters IV; A Feast of Lapithae; Demosthenes, an Encomium; The Gods in Council; The Cynic; The Purist Purized; Notes Explanatory of Allusions to Persons, &c.; Alphabetical Table of Contents.
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