The Cambridge Companion to Lucian

Herausgeber: Goldhill, Simon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 833g
• ISBN-13: 9781009170383
• ISBN-10: 1009170384
• Artikelnr.: 70898656

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
1. Introduction Simon Goldhill
Part I. 2. Lucian and the culture of criticism Richard Hunter
3. Lucian's poetics Emma Greensmith
4. Lucian and philosophy Peter van Nuffelen
5. On believing in Lucian: the religious polemics Tim Whitmarsh
6. Lucian and art history Jas Elsner
7. Some queer entanglements in Lucian's Erotes Alistair Blanshard
Part II. 8. In praise of the fly Emily Kneebone
9. Lucian's Phalaris Peter Thonemann
10. Lucian the doorkeeper: inside and outside in Lucianic Poetics Marco Formisano
11. Geographical authority and bodily entanglements in Lucian's True Histories Jason König
12. Menippus goes to the moon: fantastical astronomy and Lucian's scientific imagination Karen ni Mhealligh
13. Lucian and Christianity Eleni Bozia
14. Identification and distance in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans: subjects and their absences Dawn LaValle Norman
15. 'Here's Looking at You...': the dialogues of the gods and the erotics of the visual Simon Goldhill
Part III. 16. Lucian of Samosata in renaissance Italy Irene Fantappié
17. Lucian goes north: the Luciani opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More James Romm
18. From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: Voltaire, Leopardi and a new avenue of philosophical critique Giacomo Loi
Bibliography
Index.