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Atticists: Atticists (Grammarians), Atticists (Rhetoricians), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Lucian, Aelius Herodianus

Atticists: Atticists (Grammarians), Atticists (Rhetoricians), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Lucian, Aelius Herodianus


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Atticists (Grammarians), Atticists (Rhetoricians), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Lucian, Aelius Herodianus, Phrynichus Arabius, Aphthonius of Antioch, Conon, Aelius Moeris. Excerpt: Lucian of Samosata (Greek:, Latin: c. A.D. 125 after A.D. 180) was a Greek rhetorician, and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Few details of Lucian's life can be verified with any degree of accuracy. He claimed to have been born in Samosata, in the former kingdom of Commagene, which had been absorbed by the Roman Empire and made part of the province of Syria. In his works, Lucian refers to himself as a "Syrian," "Assyrian" and "barbarian," perhaps indicating "he was from the Semitic and not the imported Greek population" of Samosata. His birthplace was recently lost when the Atatrk Dam project led to the inundation of the site. Lucian almost certainly did not write all the more than eighty works attributed to him declamations, essays both laudatory and sarcastic, satiric epigrams, and comic dialogues and symposia with a satirical cast, studded with quotations in alarming contexts and allusions set in an unusual light, designed to be surprising and provocative. His name added luster to any entertaining and sarcastic essay: over 150 surviving manuscripts attest to his continued popularity. The first printed edition of a selection of his works was issued at Florence in 1499. His best known works are A True Story (a romance, patently not "true" at all, which he admits in his introduction to the story), and Dialogues of the Gods ( ) and Dialogues of the Dead ( ). Lucian was trained as a rhetorician, a vocation where one pleads in court, composing pleas for others, and teaching the art of pl... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=165457


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158153343
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158153341
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Atticists (Grammarians), Atticists (Rhetoricians), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Lucian, Aelius Herodianus
  • Width: 229 mm


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