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Lucian (ca. 120-190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt. Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in which he satirises human folly, superstition and hypocrisy. His aim was to amuse rather than to instruct. Among his best works are A True Story (the tallest of tall stories about a voyage to the moon), Dialogues of the Gods (a 'reductio ad absurdum' of traditional mythology), Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes), Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party), Timon (the problems of being rich), Twice Accused (Lucian's defence of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass). The Loeb Classical Library edition of Lucian is in eight volumes.

Satire, Greek --- Space and time --- Lucian, of Samosata

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Lucian (ca. 120-190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in which he satirises human folly, superstition and hypocrisy. His aim was to amuse rather than to instruct. Among his best works are A True Story (the tallest of tall stories about a voyage to the moon), Dialogues of the Gods (a 'reductio ad absurdum' of traditional mythology), Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes), Philosophies for Sale (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), The Fisherman (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), The Carousal or Symposium (philosophers misbehave at a party), Timon (the problems of being rich), Twice Accused (Lucian's defence of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) The Ass (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Lucian is in eight volumes.

Satire, Greek --- Space and time --- Lucian, of Samosata

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Lucien de Samosate (IIe s. apr. J.-C.), Syrien de naissance et de langue maternelle barbare, est l'un des plus brillants exemples du rayonnement de l'hellénisme à l'époque de la seconde sophistique. Célébré pour son "rire sérieux" et satirique, créateur de formes nouvelles, il est aussi l'auteur (l'inventeur?) des "tableaux" d'Apelle ou de Zuxis qui ont insipiré les artistes de la Renaissance en l'absence des originaux perdus. A côté de ces ekphraseis, qui sont autant de mises en scène de l'art du sophiste, Lucien soumet toutes sortes de réalisations antiques - picturales, sculpturales, architecturales - à l'évaluation du regard et du discours d'un homme de culture : il définit ainsi le rapport exemplaire que l'"honnête homme" se doit d'entretenir avec l'art. Expression d'un goût proprement grec dans un monde romain plus sensible au chatoiement des marbres

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