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Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library) Paperback - 1968
by Lucian, of Samosata/ Casson, Lionel
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- Title Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
- Author Lucian, of Samosata/ Casson, Lionel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition NIS
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 398
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc, New York
- Date 1968-04-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # FORT759947
- ISBN 9780393004434 / 0393004430
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 4.9 x 1 in (20.07 x 12.45 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 884.01
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When he was thirty-five or forty, Lucian, by then a well-known public lecturer, paid a visit to his home town-the local boy who had made good.
From the rear cover
'Lucian's genial mockery, ' writes Lionel Casson, 'aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern.'