Culture and Society in Lucian. - JONES, C.P.,
KORTE INHOUD
?The strength of this study is less in new findings or original interpretations than in the judicious application of a wealth of detail. The emphasis throughout is on the evidence for contemporary culture and society in Lucian rather than on his works as rhetorical performances or his aims or techniques as a writer. Jones? method is to examine a text, or group of texts, seeking parallels between Lucian?s ?observations? and those made by his contemporaries or supported by epigraphical or papyrological documents. The thrust of the argument is often to show that Lucian was not operating at one remove from his material but actually knew what he was talking about and that, far from being confined by the parameters of a known tradition, he drew his material from multifarious sources, contemporary and traditional, written and oral. (?) As a complement to this guiding theme of contemporaneity, Jones seeks to make sense of Lucian?s ?views? ons such difficult topics as philosophy and religion (chaps. 3-4). His superb k...
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Cambrdige (Mass.) / London, 1986. XIV,195p. Original blue cloth with dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrappers to spine a bit yellowed and to upper edge slightly edge worn. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: JONES, C.P.,] [Uitgever: Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Culture and Society in Lucian.]
