![Selected Satires of Lucian](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/434/004/9780393004434.IN.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Selected Satires of Lucian Papeback -
by Lionel Casson Lucian Samosata
- New
Description
New
NZ$50.32
NZ$6.64
Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 9 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Standard delivery: 9 to 14 days
Ships from Cold Books (New York, United States)
Details
- Title Selected Satires of Lucian
- Author Lionel Casson Lucian Samosata
- Binding Papeback
- Edition NIS
- Condition New
- Pages 398
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company , New York
- Date pp. 400
- Bookseller's Inventory # 62187570
- 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)
-
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 884.01
About Cold Books New York, United States
Biblio member since 2012
First line
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'Lucian's genial mockery, ' writes Lionel Casson, 'aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the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.'