{"product_id":"lucian-volume-ii-by-lucian-9780674997714","title":"Lucian, Volume II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntiquity's satirist supreme.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once characterises his writings—many of them intended for public performance—as a combination of dialogue and comedy, in truth the diversity of his extant works is startling. His works range from philosophic and moral dialogue to invective, from mythology to contemporary biography to high fantasy, from mock encomium to Herodotean ethnography, and from generic combinations to unclassifiable novelties, all infused with ebullient wit, elegant humour, and refined satire, and all delivered in sparkling style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded in the Loeb edition of \u003cem\u003eLucian\u003c\/em\u003e are all of his approximately seventy-five authentic works together with those doubtfully attributed. Highlights of Volume II include \u003cem\u003eThe Downward Journey\u003c\/em\u003e, a voyage to the underworld; \u003cem\u003eTimon\u003c\/em\u003e, on the problems of being a rich misanthrope; and \u003cem\u003eSale of Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, in which great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition, which replaces the original Loeb edition by A. M. Harmon (1915), offers text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306920755436,"sku":"9780674997714","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8479023482428.jpg?v=1771068762","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/lucian-volume-ii-by-lucian-9780674997714","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}