Lucian's Science Fiction Novel True Histories: Interpretation and Commentary - Interpretation and Commentary

This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's fantastic journey narrative, the True Histories - the earliest surviving example of science fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situates the text in Lucian's oeuvre and offers a guide to its interpretation as allegory and parody.

About the author

Aristoula Georgiadou, Ph.D. (1990), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Classics at Penn State University. She has published extensively on Plutarch and Lucian, and is currently completing A Historical and Philological Commentary on Plutarch's "Life of Pelopidas".
David H.J. Larmour, Ph.D. (1987), University of Illinois, is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University. He has published on Lucian, Plutarch, Juvenal and Nabokov and edited Russian Literature and the Classics (Harwood, 1996).

Product details

• Authors: Georgiadou, Larmour
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.1998
• EAN: 9789004106673
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10667-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 546 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity