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Rhetoric, Ancient --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Lucian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucianus --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Lucianus Samosatensis Satiricus. --- Lucian --- Lucian, - of Samosata

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This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading strategies. It argues that the aesthetic and cultural issues Lucian faced, in a world of mimesis and replication, were akin to those found in postmodern contexts: the ubiquity of the fake, the erasure of origins, the focus on the freakish and weird at the expense of the traditional. In addition to exploring the texture of Lucian's own writing, Dr ní Mheallaigh uses Lucian as a focal point through which to examine other fictional texts of the period, including Antonius Diogenes' The Incredible Things Beyond Thule, Dictys' Journal of the Trojan War and Ptolemy Chennus' Novel History, and reveals the importance of fiction's engagement with its contemporary culture of writing, entertainment and wonder.

Reality in literature. --- Greek fiction --- History and criticism. --- Lucian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lucianus --- Lucian --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس

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The volume provides readers with an extensive introduction, a new translation, and a full literary and philological updated commentary of Lucian's The Ship or The Whishes. In the introduction there's an explanation of the structure and the dating of the dialogue, of the author's poetics and the peculiar features of the work: the relationship with the literary traditions, the connection with contemporary reality, the psychological characterisation of characters, the stylistic and lexical features. The comment offers a systematic dissertation on linguistic, historical, artistic and sociocultural aspects of the text, in order to provide a complete undestanding of the work and of its author's personality.

Dialogues, Greek --- Satire, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Lucian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lucien de Samosate (0125?-0192?). --- Greek dialogues --- Greek literature --- History and criticism --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucianus --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس --- Lucian

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Lucian of Samosata met a two-sided fate: on the one hand he was attacked for philosophical and theological reasons; on the other he was admired for the command of the Greek language and the stylistic elegance he displays in his writings. The origins of this twofold attitude towards Lucian seem to date back to the exegesis devoted to him by Arethas, archbishop of Caesarea, which is integrally examined for the first time in this publication. The book consists of eleven chapters: 1 (manuscript tradition of Arethas' scholia on Lucian); 2 (Arethas' polemic against Lucian); 3 (scholia with "ations from biblical and patristic texts); 4 (scholia with "ations from classical texts); 5 (relationships between Arethas' scholia and Photius' Bibliotheca); 6 (scholia concerning matters of language or style); 7 (scholia dealing with various learning); 8 (scholia containing autoschediasms); 9 (scholia comparing words or facts found in Lucian's writings with words or facts belonging to the scholiast's times); 10 (bibliography); 11 (index of Arethas' scholia on Lucian).

Arethas. --- Lucian. --- Lukian. --- Polemics. --- Polemik. --- Scholia. --- Scholien. --- Scholion --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Scholien --- Scholie --- Scholia --- Lucian, --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucianus --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Lucian

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Classical Greek literature --- Dialogues, Greek --- Dialogues, Greek. --- Satire, Greek --- Satire, Greek. --- Translations into English. --- Lucian, --- Greek dialogues --- Greek literature --- Greek satire --- Greek wit and humor --- Translations into English --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucianus --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Lucian