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 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:illiterate-book-fancier|Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier]]  - A diatribe against a Syrian book-collector. [[home:texts_and_library:essays:illiterate-book-fancier|Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier]]  - A diatribe against a Syrian book-collector.
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-[[home:texts_and_library:essays:saturnalia|Saturnalia]]  - A description of the Roman festival of Saturnalia. 
  
 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:slander|Slander, a Warning]]  - An essay against believing slander too readily. Lucian's description of a painting by Apelles in this work influenced many later artists, including Botticelli. [[home:texts_and_library:essays:slander|Slander, a Warning]]  - An essay against believing slander too readily. Lucian's description of a painting by Apelles in this work influenced many later artists, including Botticelli.
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 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:swans-and-amber|Swans and Amber]]  - The author visits the River Eridanos and is disappointed to find it has neither swans nor amber (as in the myth of Phaeton). [[home:texts_and_library:essays:swans-and-amber|Swans and Amber]]  - The author visits the River Eridanos and is disappointed to find it has neither swans nor amber (as in the myth of Phaeton).
  
-[[home:texts_and_library:essays:-the-death-of-peregrine|The Death of Peregrine]]  - An account of the death of the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus who committed suicide by cremating himself on a funeral pyre at the Olympic Games in 165 AD.+[[home:texts_and_library:essays:peregrine|The Death of Peregrine]]  - An account of the death of the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus who committed suicide by cremating himself on a funeral pyre at the Olympic Games in 165 AD.
  
 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:the-dependent-scholar|The Dependent Scholar]]  - A Hogarthian sketch of the life led by educated Greeks who attached themselves to the households of great Roman lords - and ladies. [[home:texts_and_library:essays:the-dependent-scholar|The Dependent Scholar]]  - A Hogarthian sketch of the life led by educated Greeks who attached themselves to the households of great Roman lords - and ladies.
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