Warburg Institute Colloquia 10

LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA VIVUS ET REDIVIVUS

Edited by Christopher Ligota and Letizia Panizza

 

The essays in this volume bring together, in a revised and updated form, papers presented at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in December 1995.  As the title suggests, Lucian is considered both in his contemporary environment and in his Nachleben, and the overall purpose is to show the freshness and resilience of the presence in European culture of an author whose well-aimed satirical wit has, from his time to ours, led to defensive attempts at repression and expulsion from the cultural canon.  As Kurt Tucholsky put it, nothing was sacred to Lucian, which makes him a ‘friend, cousin, brother, comrade at arms’.

 

CONTENTS

Simon Swain                             The Three Faces of Lucian

Christopher Ligota                     Lucian on the Writing of History: Obsolescence Survived

Letizia Panizza                          Vernacular Lucian in Renaissance Italy: Translations and Transformations

Isabelle Pantin                           Kepler et Lucien: Des voyages extraordinaires au ludus philosophicus

Jean Michel Massing                 A Few More Calumnies: Lucian and the Visual Arts

Emmanuel Bury                        Un sophiste impérial à l’Académie: Lucien en France au XVIIe siècle

Luc Deitz                                  Wieland’s Lucian

Manuel Baumbach                    Lucian in German Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

                                                  Introduction and Index.

 

     228 pp            22 black & white illustrations         2007           Price: £36.00           
ISBN 978 0 85481 138 0        ISSN 1352-9986

The Warburg Institute, London - Nino Aragno Editore, Turin