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This book offers a discriminating overview of Lucian's work, explains his place in the literature and culture of the Roman Empire, takes a look behind the authorial masks, analyzes the poiesis of his most important literary inventions—the comic dialogues—and discusses questions of the staging, publication, and translation of his works.

Authors, Greek --- Authors, Greek. --- Philosophy in literature. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Rhetoricians --- Rhetoricians. --- Satirists --- Satirists. --- Second Sophistic movement. --- Technique. --- Themes, motives. --- Lucian,