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.
| Autorius: | Michael O. Zappala |
| Leidėjas: | Scripta Humanistica |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2015 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 394 |
| ISBN-10: | 091637971X |
| ISBN-13: | 9780916379711 |
| Formatas: | 222 x 145 x 27 mm. Knyga kietu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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