Lucians Place

Author : Belle Smith
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 1413769632
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian's Place written by Belle Smith and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what age we live in, we are pretty much like our ancestors: We eat what Og ate two hundred thousand years ago, we still reproduce and love basically the same way, and most importantly, we all average three score and ten life spans. This is a little better than Og but not much in the larger scheme of things. Lucianas Place is a story of three people thrown back in time with just themselves, a huge plantation, two horses, and a self-aware computer. Two of these people are a mother and daughter. Our third unintended time traveler is the best friend of the late father and husband of the other two sole inhabitants of Earth. This story is of hope and a prediction of the miracles of science just a very few years off in our lifetime. Itas funny, loving, sexy, thrilling, and prophetic.

Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472220977
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian’s Laughing Gods written by Inger NI Kuin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion at all, featuring the gods as literary characters. His humor was traditionally viewed as a symptom of decreased religiosity, but that model of religious decline in the second century CE has been invalidated by ancient historians. Understanding these works now requires understanding what it means to imagine as laughing and laughable gods who are worshipped in everyday cult. In Lucian's Laughing Gods, author Inger N. I. Kuin argues that in ancient Greek thought, comedic depictions of divinities were not necessarily desacralizing. In religion, laughter was accommodated to such an extent as to actually be constituent of some ritual practices, and the gods were imagined either to reciprocate or push back against human laughter—they were never deflated by it. Lucian uses the gods as comic characters, but in doing so, he does not automatically negate their power. Instead, with his depiction of the gods and of how they relate to humans—frivolous, insecure, callous—Lucian challenges the dominant theologies of his day as he refuses to interpret the gods as ethical models. This book contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly, including philosophy, early Christian thought, and popular culture (dance, fables, standard jokes, etc.). His texts are analyzed as providing a window onto non-elite attitudes and experiences, and methodologies from religious studies and the sociology of religion are used to conceptualize Lucian’s engagement with the religiosity of his contemporaries.

Author : Lucian
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647920272
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies written by Lucian and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan’s lively English translations of Lucian’s three reanimations of Menippus—fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian’s evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian’s Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian’s imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.

Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian's Dialogues written by Lucian (of Samosata.) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian's Dialogues, Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-Gods, and of the Dead, Etc written by Williams and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Lucian written by Lucian (of Samosata.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evelyn Abbott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382171546
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Lucian written by Evelyn Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Lucianus (of Samosata.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Lucian, with Engl. notes by E. Abbott written by Lucianus (of Samosata.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Lucian. With English notes. By E. Abbott. (Exercises for retranslation.) Gr written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georgiadou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351507
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucian's Science Fiction Novel True Histories: Interpretation and Commentary written by Georgiadou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's Verae Historiae ("True Histories"), a fantastic journey narrative considered the earliest surviving example of Science Fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situates the work in the context of Lucian's oeuvre, especially his preoccupation with distinguishing truth from fiction and exposing the lies of philosophers. In their commentary, the editors trace the sources and the meaning of the numerous intertextual allusions and parodies of philosophers, poets, historians and paradoxographers. The Verae Historiae emerges from this scrutiny as a remarkably complex text with some very "modern" concerns: it problematizes the act of reading, allegorical interpretation, authorial reliability, and the validity of cultural norms and literary genres.