The Cambridge companion to Lucian /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Goldhill, Simon (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:	Lucian, > of Samosata > Criticism and interpretation. Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Simon Goldhill
Lucian and the culture of criticism / Richard Hunter
Lucian's poetics / Emma Greensmith
Lucian and philosophy / Peter Van Nuffelen
On believing in Lucian: the religious polemics / Tim Whitmarsh
Lucian and art history / Jaś Elsner
Some queer entanglements in Lucian's Erotes / Alastair Blanshard
In praise of the fly / Emily Kneebone
Lucian's Phalaris / Peter Thonemann
Lucian the doorkeeper: inside and outside in Lucianic poetics / Marco Formisano
Geographical authority and bodily entanglement in Lucian's True histories / Jason König
Menippus goes to the moon: fantastical astronomy and Lucian's scientific imagination / Karen Ní Mheallaigh
Lucian and Christianity / Eleni Bozia
Identification and distance in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans: subjects and their absences / Dawn LaValle Norman
'Here's looking at you--': the Dialogues of the Gods and the erotics of the visual / Simon Goldhill
Lucian of Samosata in Renaissance Italy / Irene Fantappiè
Lucian goes north: the Luciani Opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More / James Romm
From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: Voltaire, Leopardi, and a new avenue of philosophical critique / Giacomo Loi.