The Works

of

Lucian of Samosata

Complete with exceptions specified in the preface

Translated by

H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
  1. The Vision
  2. A Literary Prometheus
  3. Nigrinus
  4. Trial in the Court of Vowels
  5. Timon the Misanthrope
  6. Prometheus on Caucasus
  7. Dialogues of the Gods
  8. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
  9. Dialogues of the Dead
  10. Menippus
  11. Charon
  12. Of Sacrifice
  13. Sale of Creeds
  14. The Fisher
  15. Voyage to the Lower World
  16. The Dependent Scholar
  17. Apology for ‘The Dependent Scholar’
  18. A Slip of the Tongue in Salutation
  19. Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies
  20. Herodotus and Aetion
  21. Zeuxis and Antiochus
  22. Harmonides
  23. The Scythian
  24. The Way to Write History
  25. The True History
  26. The Tyrannicide
  27. The Disinherited
  28. Phalaris, I
  29. Phalaris, II
  30. Alexander the Oracle-Monger
  31. Of Pantomime
  32. Lexiphanes
  33. Life of Demonax
  34. A Portrait-Study
  35. Defence of the ‘Portrait-Study’
  36. Toxaris: A Dialogue of Friendship
  37. Zeus Cross-Examined
  38. Zeus Tragoedus
  39. The Cock
  40. Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition
  41. The Double Indictment
  42. The Parasite, a Demonstration that Sponging is a Profession
  43. Anacharsis, a Discussion of Physical Training
  44. Of Mourning
  45. The Rhetorician’s Vade Mecum
  46. The Liar
  47. Dionysus, an Introductory Lecture
  48. Heracles, an Introductory Lecture
  49. Swans and Amber
  50. The Fly, an Appreciation
  51. Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier
  52. Slander, a Warning
  53. The Hall
  54. Patriotism
  55. Dipsas, the Thirst-Snake
  56. A Word with Hesiod
  57. The Ship: Or, the Wishes
  58. Dialogues of the Hetaerae
  59. The Death of Peregrine
  60. The Runaways
  61. Saturnalia
  62. Cronosolon
  63. Saturnalian Letters
  64. A Feast of Lapithae
  65. Demosthenes
  66. The Gods in Council
  67. The Cynic
  68. The Purist Purized

Notes Explanatory of Allusions to Persons, &c.

What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought into the barren domestic soil? except indeed planting thought of your own, which the fewest are privileged to do.—Sarlor Resarlus.

At each flaw, be this your first thought: the author doubtless said something quite different, and much more to the point. And then you may hiss me off, if you will.—LUCIAN, Nigrinus, 9.

(LUCIAN) The last great master of Attic eloquence and Attic wit.— Lord Macaulay.

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