The Dialogues of Lucian

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Excerpt from The Dialogues of Lucian: Translated From the Greek In attempting to sketch the life of Lucian we are wholly dependent, or very nearly so, on what he tells us himself. In some cases the autobiographical evidence is clear and unconcealed, but in other cases it must be sought in the speeches or dialogues of certain characters in several of his works. Even then we are uncertain what allowance we must make for rhetorical decoration and satirical humour. Certain main facts, however, stand out in clear relief and form a framework which can be filled in very largely at the scholarly discretion of readers of his entire works. For instance, we know from more than one source that Lucian was born at Samosata on the Euphrates, now the Kurdish village of Samsat lying between Aleppo and Diarbekr, somewhere about A.D. 125. Thus he was a Syrian by birth, although Samosata had become a Greek city at an early date, being the capital of Kummukh, called Commagene by the Greeks. It did not become a Roman province till A.D. 72, when it received the additional name of Flavia. It is necessary to bear these facts in mind when we come to consider Lucian as a satirist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.