Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

by Lucian of Samosata, F.G. Fowler (Translator), Henry Watson Fowler (Translator)

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272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Lucian of Samosata was a Greek-educated Syrian rhetorician, and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.

Reviews

[Dmk · Rating 3 out of 5]

The problem with this edition is that they just placed things chronologicaly... so different types of writing are presented here and some of them are cool, some of them funny and some of them neither of those.

I mean court of wovels is just great. Mr. kappa suing mr. Tau becoues in latin of Lucian's days people tend to use T at place of D :D

Dialogues of sea-gods? Creatures from mythology I do not know about talk.. great... I don't get it...

Dialogues of dead (and generaly places when mocking philosophers) funny, and great to hear something more about cynics... but nothing really deep. Lucian writes for educated but not for deep intelectuals.

Generaly I liked it. Crazyness in his works are lovely... but some passages are just boring or unreadable for people without eduaction of 2nd century roman wealthier citizien...

[Zack · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was such a tough read. Unless you a historian I wouldn't recommend this book as it's a pretty dry read.