Cambridge Companion to Lucian

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.

About the author

SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

Product details

• Assisted by: Simon Goldhill (Editor), Goldhill Simon (Editor), Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill (Editor)
• Authors: Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.11.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781009170383
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0917038-3
• Pages: 474
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Biography, Literature and Literary studies