The Works of Lucian of Samosata

 Table of Contents

 The Vision A Chapter of Autobiography

 A Literary Prometheus

 Nigrinus A Dialogue

 Fr . Stay, gentle enthusiast. Take a good breath, and start again I am waiting to hear what Nigrinus said. You beat about the bush in a manner truly

 the turmoil of Rome? slander and insolence and gluttony, flatterers and false friends, legacy-hunters and murderers? And what wilt thou do here? thou

 and resolved henceforth to keep my house. I lead the life you see - a spiritless, womanish life, most men would account it - holding converse with Phi

 For as it is not every man that is maddened by the sound of the Phrygian flute, but only those who are inspired of Cybele, and by those strains are re

 Trial in the Court of Vowels Archon, Aristarchus of Phalerum. Seventh Pyanepsion. Court of the Seven Vowels. Action for assault with robbery. Sigma v

 Timon the Misanthrope Timon. Zeus. Hermes. Plutus. Poverty. Gnathonides. Philiades. Demeas. Thrasycles. Blepsias.

 Prometheus on Caucasus

 Dialogues of the Gods

 I

 II

 III

 VI

 VII

 XI

 XII

 XIII

 XIV

 XV

 XVI

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
  1. The Vision
  2. A Literary Prometheus
  3. Nigrinus
  4. Trial in the Court of Vowels
  5. Timon the Misanthrope
  6. Prometheus on Caucasus
  7. Dialogues of the Gods
  8. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
  9. Dialogues of the Dead
  10. Menippus
  11. Charon
  12. Of Sacrifice
  13. Sale of Creeds
  14. The Fisher
  15. Voyage to the Lower World
  16. The Dependent Scholar
  17. Apology for 'The Dependent Scholar'
  18. A Slip of the Tongue in Salutation
  19. Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies
  20. Herodotus and Aetion
  21. Zeuxis and Antiochus
  22. Harmonides
  23. The Scythian
  24. The Way to Write History
  25. The True History
  26. The Tyrannicide
  27. The Disinherited
  28. Phalaris, I
  29. Phalaris, II
  30. Alexander the Oracle-Monger
  31. Of Pantomime
  32. Lexiphanes
  33. Life of Demonax
  34. A Portrait-Study
  35. Defence of the 'Portrait-Study'
  36. Toxaris: A Dialogue of Friendship
  37. Zeus Cross-Examined
  38. Zeus Tragoedus
  39. The Cock
  40. Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition
  41. The Double Indictment
  42. The Parasite, a Demonstration that Sponging is a Profession
  43. Anacharsis, a Discussion of Physical Training
  44. Of Mourning
  45. The Rhetorician's Vade Mecum
  46. The Liar
  47. Dionysus, an Introductory Lecture
  48. Heracles, an Introductory Lecture
  49. Swans and Amber
  50. The Fly, an Appreciation
  51. Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier
  52. Slander, a Warning
  53. The Hall
  54. Patriotism
  55. Dipsas, the Thirst-Snake
  56. A Word with Hesiod
  57. The Ship: Or, the Wishes
  58. Dialogues of the Hetaerae
  59. The Death of Peregrine
  60. The Runaways
  61. Saturnalia
  62. Cronosolon
  63. Saturnalian Letters
  64. A Feast of Lapithae
  65. Demosthenes
  66. The Gods in Council
  67. The Cynic
  68. The Purist Purized

Notes Explanatory of Allusions to Persons, &c.