Image of Lucian appearing on the title page to The Works of Lucian (1780), translated by Thomas Francklin.

Featured on PDR in the essay Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods

With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and redrew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves, editor of a new edition for PDR Press, explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English-speaking world.

Also appearing in the essay…

Lucian

Date

1780

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The Works of Lucian


Source

Internet Archive / California Digital Library

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