Lucian's Dialogues: Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-gods, and of the Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, the Ferry-boat, EtcG. Bell and sons, 1888 - 315 pages |
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... poet of the Odyssey - that he would rather be a slave on earth than king in Hades - shows him the uselessness of ... poets . Hermes shows him the ghosts of the most famous of them , and , in particular , that of Helene . Menippus ...
... poet of the Odyssey - that he would rather be a slave on earth than king in Hades - shows him the uselessness of ... poets . Hermes shows him the ghosts of the most famous of them , and , in particular , that of Helene . Menippus ...
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... poets and theologists , and , in particular , his metamorphosis into a woman XXIX . Agamemnon inquires of ( Telamonian ) Aias the reason of his late cool reception of Odysseus , when he came down to learn the future from Teiresias ...
... poets and theologists , and , in particular , his metamorphosis into a woman XXIX . Agamemnon inquires of ( Telamonian ) Aias the reason of his late cool reception of Odysseus , when he came down to learn the future from Teiresias ...
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... poet , Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , 66 99 he protests : - no one , if not Lucian , has succeeded in illus- trating this truth . He has imitated the raillery , without copying the wantonness , of the Old Comedy . Gracious ...
... poet , Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , 66 99 he protests : - no one , if not Lucian , has succeeded in illus- trating this truth . He has imitated the raillery , without copying the wantonness , of the Old Comedy . Gracious ...
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... poet and romancist ( 1788 ) , is easily first ; and , indeed , it is generally held to be entitled to the foremost place among all attempts at a modern representation of the Greek wit . Lucian is almost encyclopædic in the extent and ...
... poet and romancist ( 1788 ) , is easily first ; and , indeed , it is generally held to be entitled to the foremost place among all attempts at a modern representation of the Greek wit . Lucian is almost encyclopædic in the extent and ...
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... poet , romancist , littérateur . Of the eighty - four separate writings attributed to him , and published in the editions of his works , not a few find an undeserved place there . Some pieces of inferior merit are the production of his ...
... poet , romancist , littérateur . Of the eighty - four separate writings attributed to him , and published in the editions of his works , not a few find an undeserved place there . Some pieces of inferior merit are the production of his ...
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