An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.
An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.
List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Introduction Simon Goldhill Part I. 2. Lucian and the culture of criticism Richard Hunter 3. Lucian's poetics Emma Greensmith 4. Lucian and philosophy Peter van Nuffelen 5. On believing in Lucian: the religious polemics Tim Whitmarsh 6. Lucian and art history Jas Elsner 7. Some queer entanglements in Lucian's Erotes Alistair Blanshard Part II. 8. In praise of the fly Emily Kneebone 9. Lucian's Phalaris Peter Thonemann 10. Lucian the doorkeeper: inside and outside in Lucianic Poetics Marco Formisano 11. Geographical authority and bodily entanglements in Lucian's True Histories Jason König 12. Menippus goes to the moon: fantastical astronomy and Lucian's scientific imagination Karen ni Mhealligh 13. Lucian and Christianity Eleni Bozia 14. Identification and distance in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans: subjects and their absences Dawn LaValle Norman 15. 'Here's Looking at You...': the dialogues of the gods and the erotics of the visual Simon Goldhill Part III. 16. Lucian of Samosata in renaissance Italy Irene Fantappié 17. Lucian goes north: the Luciani opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More James Romm 18. From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: Voltaire, Leopardi and a new avenue of philosophical critique Giacomo Loi Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Introduction Simon Goldhill Part I. 2. Lucian and the culture of criticism Richard Hunter 3. Lucian's poetics Emma Greensmith 4. Lucian and philosophy Peter van Nuffelen 5. On believing in Lucian: the religious polemics Tim Whitmarsh 6. Lucian and art history Jas Elsner 7. Some queer entanglements in Lucian's Erotes Alistair Blanshard Part II. 8. In praise of the fly Emily Kneebone 9. Lucian's Phalaris Peter Thonemann 10. Lucian the doorkeeper: inside and outside in Lucianic Poetics Marco Formisano 11. Geographical authority and bodily entanglements in Lucian's True Histories Jason König 12. Menippus goes to the moon: fantastical astronomy and Lucian's scientific imagination Karen ni Mhealligh 13. Lucian and Christianity Eleni Bozia 14. Identification and distance in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans: subjects and their absences Dawn LaValle Norman 15. 'Here's Looking at You...': the dialogues of the gods and the erotics of the visual Simon Goldhill Part III. 16. Lucian of Samosata in renaissance Italy Irene Fantappié 17. Lucian goes north: the Luciani opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More James Romm 18. From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: Voltaire, Leopardi and a new avenue of philosophical critique Giacomo Loi Bibliography Index.
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