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Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias: An Essay in Literary and Cultural Translation

Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias: An Essay in Literary and Cultural Translation

Zappala, Michael O.

Hardcover

Series: Scripta Humanistica

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 091637971X
ISBN13: 9780916379711
Publisher: Perugia Pr
Published: Jun 18 2015
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This important diachronic study of the life and works of Lucian of Samosata investigates the varied images of the Sophist from Syria from late Antiquity to the seventeenth-century. Using sources in Patristic literature, Byzantine glosses, the Neo-Latin satire of the Quattrocento, the Vitae Luciani, and Golden Age texts, Zappala demonstrates how the writings of Lucian are fragmented into a series of authors the historiographer, the writer of fantasy, the moralist, the atheist, the stylist. The study illustrates the dynamic relationship between a fixed text and the cultural translation which unfixes that text and spins it out onto surprising, paradoxical recreations. Both in its sources and its treatment, this work is a groundbreaking study which illuminates previously unstudied areas of the continuing mutation of Classical literature in the European heritage.

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