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True history
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ISBN: 9780198789659 0198789653 9780198789642 0198789645 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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The ass of the Gods : Apuleius' Golden ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman metamorphosis literature
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ISBN: 9789004537163 9004537163 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill

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"Apuleius' Golden Ass and the Lucianic Loukios, or the Ass depend on and play with readers' familiarity with the clear patterns of Greek and Roman stories of metamorphosis. The formulaic nature of these stories suggests that the appearance of a god at the end of the Golden Ass is unsurprising and that the end of the Loukios is more innovative. This context also sheds new light on the function of the Cupid and Psyche story, the meaning of these works' titles, and the lost Metamorphoseis on which they are both based and of which the Golden Ass is a translation"--

Lucian’s science fiction novel, true histories : interpretation and commentary
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ISBN: 9004106677 9004351507 9789004106673 9789004351509 Year: 1998 Volume: 179 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's Verae Historiae ('True Histories'), a fantastic journey narrative considered the earliest surviving example of Science Fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situates the work in the context of Lucian's oeuvre, especially his preoccupation with distinguishing truth from fiction and exposing the lies of philosophers. In their commentary, the editors trace the sources and the meaning of the numerous intertextual allusions and parodies of philosophers, poets, historians and paradoxographers. The Verae Historiae emerges from this scrutiny as a remarkably complex text with some very 'modern' concerns: it problematizes the act of reading, allegorical interpretation, authorial reliability, and the validity of cultural norms and literary genres.


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Lukian : unter doppelter Anklage : ein Kommentar
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ISBN: 3631468695 Year: 1994 Volume: 85 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main New York Peter Lang

Phantasie und Lachkultur : Lukians Wahre Geschichten
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ISBN: 3823348752 Year: 1997 Volume: 16 Publisher: Tübingen Narr

Oeuvres. Tome XII, Opuscules 55-57
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ISBN: 2251004637 2251005099 9782251005423 9782251005096 9782251006154 225100615X 2251004181 9782251004181 9782251004631 2251005420 Year: 2017 Volume: 360, 384, 427, 461, 513 Publisher: Paris Belles Lettres

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