Lucian and the Latins

Lucian and the Latins
Author: David Marsh
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780472108466

Explores Lucian's influence on Renaissance writers

Lucian and His Roman Voices

Lucian and His Roman Voices
Author: Eleni Bozia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317633822

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman citizen, was affected by the socio-political climate of his time, reacted to it, and how he ‘corresponded’ with the Roman intelligentsia. In the process, this unique volume raises questions such as: What did the title ‘Roman citizen’ mean to native Romans and to others? How were language and literature politicized, and how did they become a means of social propaganda? This study reveals Lucian’s recondite historical and authorial personas and the ways in which his literary activity portrayed second-century reality from the perspectives of the Romans, Greeks, pagans, Christians, and citizens of the Roman Empire

Lucian's a true story

Lucian's a true story
Author: Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher: Edgar Evan Hayes
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0983222800

The aim of this book is to make Lucian's A True Story accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. Lucian's A True Story is a great text for intermediate readers. Its breathless narrative does not involve many complex sentences or constructions; there is some unusual vocabulary and a few departures from Attic Greek, but for the most part it is a straightforward narrative that is fun and interesting by one of antiquity's cleverest authors. In A True Story, Lucian parodies accounts of fanciful adventures and travel to incredible places by authors such as Ctesias and Iambulus. The story's combination of mockery and learning makes it an excellent example of the Greek literature of the imperial period. Revised August, 2014.

Lucian

Lucian
Author: Lucian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 052184200X

The only edition for classroom use of a selection of works by Lucian, a highly entertaining writer of straightforward Greek.

The Select Dialogues of Lucian

The Select Dialogues of Lucian
Author: Lucian
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781358724213

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Studies on Alberti and Petrarch

Studies on Alberti and Petrarch
Author: David Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351219405

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. His Latin writings owe much to the model of Petrarch (1304-1374), the famed poet of the Italian Canzoniere, but also a prolific author of Latin epistles, biographies, and poems that sparked the revival of classical culture in the early Italian Renaissance. The essays collected here reflect some thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism, and offer important insights into forms of Renaissance 'self-fashioning' such as allegory and autobiography.