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Lucian's True History

Lucian's True History

Whibley, Charles

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Historical Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798685395900
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 12 2020
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.12 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Lucian opens his history by stating that Men interested in athletics and in the care of their bodies think not only of condition and exercise but also of relaxation in season; in fact, they consider this the principal part of training. In like manner students...after much reading of serious works may profitably relax their minds and put them in better trim for future labour.Lucian's main concern is the relationship between truths and lies. He associates lying with the poets, historians and philosophers who 'wrote many marvellous stories', such as Ctesias of Cnidos and Iambulus. He asserts that his own work will allude to these 'liars' in an approach which is mocking and amusing. Lucian from the very start confesses that he draws satirically on the fashionable tales of the past, but what is more imperceptive is the way he draws off the very truth of human character to look to certain things and ask questions as many a scholar and poet which he draws on has done previous. Lucian admits that he himself has turned to lies but defends his choice to tell them by admitting that there is nothing worth telling that has happened to him in his monotonous life. He justifies this by claiming he will be far more reasonable in his lies that the others. Lucian continues on a tradition of illustrating the human condition through fiction.In his declaration and following introduction, Lucian parodies the preliminary works of Socrates at the commencement of his apology and Ctesias who claimed to be telling the complete and unvarnished truth. Lucian uses authorial and narratorial voices and in doing so exemplifies the way in which the truth and fiction are constantly threatening to coalesce. So Lucian is looking to show how the falsehoods can be presented as truths. But in doing so he is still presenting us with human truths which are the foundation of natural thought processes and with cultural ideologies in his context.

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