Lucian Of Samosata In The Two Hesperias

Lucian Of Samosata In The Two Hesperias

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. "El estudio de Michael O. Zappala viene a llenar un vacío en la historia de las relaciones culturales entre la tradición griega, la italiana renacentista y la española." -Victoriana Roncero López, Cuadernos de ALDEEU.

  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • I: Lucian, Classical Paideia, the Fathers and Byzantium
  • II: The Hermeneutical Path and the Images of Lucian in Italy
  • III: Lucian, Hellenism and Pro-Reform Literature
  • IV: Lucian, Hellenism and the Reform (Part II)
  • V: Byzantium, Hellenism and Lucian in Fifteenth-Century Spain
  • VI: Hellenism and Lucian in Sixteenth-Century Spain
  • VII: The Lucian of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento in Spain
  • VIII: Images of Lucian in Golden Age Spain: The Moral Philosopher
  • IX: Lucian as Moral Philosopher: The Second Period (1560-1600)
  • X: Lucian as Moral Philosopher: The Third Period (1600-1680)
  • XI: Lucian as Atheist
  • XII: Lucian, Fantastic Literature and Subjectivism
  • XIII: Lucian and Golden Age Historiography
  • XIV: Lucian as Authority on Style
  • XV: Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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