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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Works of Lucian of Samosata Volume Mar 24, Dmk rated it it was ok. It was weaker than the first volume. Yes True History was there Last pieces were just legal speeches which I found uninteresting.

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True history Style of writing was too fast, rather description of events than real storytelling. Which is pitty becouse it made a great story into one that It was weaker than the first volume. Which is pitty becouse it made a great story into one that bored me in the end. But well plot is great. So they fighted on the side of people from moon and as a gift they recieved kings son becouse selenians have no females Not the most entertaing book, but you should read it anyway.

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The enormous success of the dialogue of the dead was partly due to an analogous earlier development in France see above. In the two decades between and David Fassmann alone composed dialogues of that kind, claiming Fontenelle as his inspiration, while Gottsched went back to Lucian himself, and other German authors followed him. This 'explosion' of dialogues of the dead in Germany more than were written in the 18th century also led to a more general rediscovery of the dialogue as literary form , promoted again by Gottsched.

Concomitant with this was the discovery of Lucian's works as models for a new form of witty journalistic writing and the return of prose satire to literary prominence The longest part of the chapter, however, is naturally devoted to Wieland, the greatest German Lucianist ever In a way comparable to Erasmus, Wieland discovered many parallels between the age of Lucian and his own, so that in his eyes what Lucian had to say could immediately be applied to the later 18th century.

This was the main reason for Wieland's enormously successful and widely acclaimed efforts to render almost all of Lucian's works into German. The rest of this chapter is devoted to another great admirer of Lucian in this time, David Christoph Seybold f. The next chapter deals with Lucianic studies in early 19th century Germany At first Wieland's translation did much to enhance Lucian's reputation p.

The reform of high school "Gymnasium" education in Prussia in provided ample scope for the reading of Latin and Greek authors in the schools, and, in the first decades of the 19th century, Lucian's writings especially the Dialogues of the Gods and the Dialogues of the Dead were widely taught But when Wieland's reputation waned, Lucian's became endangered, too. Wieland had meant to do Lucian a favor when he compared him to Voltaire; but this comparison came back to haunt Lucian, as it increasingly contributed to depict his wit as negative and destructive A new German translation of the whole oeuvre by August Pauly in the late s remained more or less true to the spirit if not the wording of his great predecessor , while a new monographical introduction Karl Georg Jacob, Characteristik Lucians von Samosata, actually tried to defend Lucian against the slowly increasing ranks of his detractors and even credited Lucian with undertaking something like 'educational reform' in his age Jacob's picture of Lucian, however, was strongly called into question by Karl Friedrich Hermann, 7 who still appreciated Lucian's entertaining and witty qualities but at the same time saw him as part of an age of decline; and a similar judgment was expressed by A.

Wissowa Having described the slowly rising controversy within the Classics about Lucian's worth, M. Interestingly, there were theologians like Johann Christian Tiemann, 9 who strongly recommended reading Lucian including even the more frivolous passages as being conducive to the sexual enlightenment of young people , and August Kestner, 10 who interpreted Lucian's satirical attacks against the traditional gods as preparing the way for Christianity he even attributes some crypto-Christian tendencies to Lucian ; but others 11 stuck to more traditional interpretations of Lucian as an anti-Christian and mainly destructive voice and found material for this even beyond De morte Peregrini.

Still others 12 tried to mediate between these two camps, characterizing Lucian's satire as mostly harmless joking and seeing him earnestly attached to bringing out the truth; but this line of interpretation could also stress the destructive side of his writing.

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In the s new defenders appeared to absolve De morte Peregrini from its presumed anti-Christian bias 14 or at least play down its ridiculing tendency. While losing ground in the Gymnasium, Lucian enjoyed increasing interest in university research, but this, alas, in the long run contributed to his declining reputation.

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The last chapter , under the witty title "Lucianus quinquies accusatus" is devoted to Lucian's fortunes in 20th century Germany. In the wake of Bernays, German classicists like Wilamowitz, Hirzel, and Helm dismissed Lucian as a totally nihilistic author and a mere 'journalist' It did not help that Lucian's age was considered -- even more now than had been the case earlier -- a period of ever increasing decline and that parallels between it and the age of Wieland as a period markedly inferior to the following classicism of Schiller and Goethe were very much stressed Also satire, one of Lucian's principal modes of expression, was rejected as obsolete and not on a par with other literary genres, a development that had already begun in the 19th century Related to this was an increasing tendency to compare Lucian to Heinrich Heine, whose satirical works did not enjoy much favor either , and at the end of the 19th century, anti-Semitic sentiments crept in, depicting Lucian as an 'Oriental' and 'Syrian' totally devoid of character and principles Finally the last blow was dealt by Rudolf Helm in: Lucian und Menipp, , who tried to show that this author did not have even the slightest claim to literary merit and originality, having taken everything that is worthwhile in his writings out of the works of Menippus Though this judgment was soon taken over by others, Lucian still enjoyed a certain reputation among the broader public, not least because Wieland's translation and others were republished, and there were even attempts to judge his 'journalistic' qualities positively ; in , the German satirist Tucholsky celebrated Lucian's irreverent humor and invective in a poem.

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The professional representatives of German Classical studies, however, were not impressed, and Helm's negative judgment continued to dominate their attitudes more or less until the s At last, however, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. In the last section of this chapter , B.

All these ups and downs in Lucian's fortunes are described by B.


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    7. In a high number of instances as far as I was able to check , these quotations are full of inaccuracies, ranging from slight orthographical mistakes to rather more serious distortions of whole phrases. I give a few examples where I give in abbreviated form a quotation as B. Jacob, Characteristik Lucians von Samosata, , p.

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    Bernays, Lucian und die Kyniker, , p. Helm, Lucian und Menipp, , p. One has to suspect that considerably more distorted quotations of this kind lurk in the book; 17 so if there should be a second edition which would be desirable, given the interesting and otherwise well-presented contents , the author must be strongly urged to check every quotation and restore it to its original form; then one would have a truly reliable history of Lucian's fortunes in Germany, something which the entertaining writer from Samosata clearly deserves.

    Pride of place still belongs to Chr.