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   * All downloadable material exists in the public domain   * All downloadable material exists in the public domain
  
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-[[http://publicdomainreview.org/|{{:images/pdr-logo.gif}}]]+**Visions of Lucian 3: Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier / In Spite of Your Art: A Word with Lucian**\\ 
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 +**Caption:** By 175AD the literary satirist Lucian of Samosata was at the peak of his powers. He was wealthy, famous, wildly popular, and — we may assume — contented. Until, that is, he made the acquaintance of a fellow Assyrian in Athens possessed of a remarkable collection of books. Lucian’s disgust on discovering that these books were less for reading than for show resulted in him composing, and then publishing, a poison pen letter so vicious that it stands as a blot on even his rogue’s legacy.
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 +Today we know that letter as Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier. In this new tête-bêche edition, Nicholas Jeeves first reproduces the Remarks in full, and in the companion piece In Spite of Your Art, goes on to interrupt Lucian’s afterlife to address him with a few choice remarks of his own…
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 +Order from eBay: [[https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Visions-of-Lucian-3-Remarks-Addressed-editioned-chapbook/164061243420|Multia Small Edition, Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier / In Spite of Your Art: A Word with Lucian by Lucian of Samosata and Nicholas Jeeves]]
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 **The Public Domain Review: Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods**\\ **The Public Domain Review: Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods**\\
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-{{:images/books/LucianDOTG_3g-1024x644.jpg}} **Caption:**  With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and re-drew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves, editor of a new edition for PDR Press, explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English speaking world. [[http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/|Source: The Public Domain Review]]+ **Caption:**  With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and re-drew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves, editor of a new edition for PDR Press, explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English speaking world. [[http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/|Source: The Public Domain Review]]
  
 Please enjoy this linked article - an abridged version of the book's introduction: [[http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/|Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods]] Please enjoy this linked article - an abridged version of the book's introduction: [[http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/|Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods]]
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 ===== Further Reading ===== ===== Further Reading =====
  
-{{:images/books/chatteringCourtesans.jpg|Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches | Sidwell}} [[http://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Courtesans-Other-Sardonic-Sketches/dp/0140447024/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584591&sr=8-2&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]+{{:home:pasted:20190707-125625.png |Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches| Sidwell }} [[http://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Courtesans-Other-Sardonic-Sketches/dp/0140447024/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584591&sr=8-2&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]
  
 Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches | Sidwell Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches | Sidwell
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-{{:images/books/mimesCourtesans.jpg|The Mimes of the Courtesans}} [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Mimes-Courtesans-Lucian-Samosata/dp/1434690725/ref=sr_1_79?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584689&sr=8-79&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]+{{:home:pasted:20190707-125637.png |The Mimes of the Courtesans}} [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Mimes-Courtesans-Lucian-Samosata/dp/1434690725/ref=sr_1_79?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584689&sr=8-79&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]
  
 The Mimes of the Courtesans The Mimes of the Courtesans
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-{{:images/books/searchSorcerers.jpg|In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies | Ogden}} [[http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Sorcerers-Apprentice-Traditional/dp/190512516X/ref=sr_1_62?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584671&sr=8-62&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]+{{:home:pasted:20190707-125656.png |In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies | Ogden}} [[http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Sorcerers-Apprentice-Traditional/dp/190512516X/ref=sr_1_62?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584671&sr=8-62&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]
  
 In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies | Ogden In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies | Ogden
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-{{:images/books/selectedDialogues.jpg|Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) | Costa}} [[http://www.amazon.com/Lucian-Selected-Dialogues-Oxford-Classics/dp/0199555931/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584591&sr=8-4&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]+{{:home:pasted:20190707-125859.png |Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) | Costa}} [[http://www.amazon.com/Lucian-Selected-Dialogues-Oxford-Classics/dp/0199555931/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1342584591&sr=8-4&keywords=lucian+of+samosata|]]
  
 Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) | Costa Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) | Costa
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 ===== Intermediate Greek Readers ===== ===== Intermediate Greek Readers =====
  
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 Visit [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/|Faenum Publishing]] for more information. Visit [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/|Faenum Publishing]] for more information.
  
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-{{:images/books/trueStory.jpg|Lucian's A True Story: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary | Nimis, Hayes}} [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/lucians-a-true-story.html|]] 
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 Lucian's A True Story: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary | Nimis, Hayes Lucian's A True Story: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary | Nimis, Hayes
  
-{{:images/books/TheAss.jpg|Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader | Nimis, Hayes}} [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/lucians-the-ass.html|]] 
  
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 Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader | Nimis, Hayes Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader | Nimis, Hayes
  
-{{:images/books/OnTheSyrianGoddess.jpg|Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess: An Intermediate Greek Reader | Nimis, Hayes}} [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/lucians-on-the-syrian-goddess.html|]]+{{:home:pasted:20190707-130458.png |Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader | Nimis, Hayes}} [[http://www.faenumpublishing.com/lucians-the-ass.html|]]
  
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 ===== Latin (Latine) ===== ===== Latin (Latine) =====
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-Full Audio Version: [[downloads/tripstothemoonaudio.mp3|tripstothemoonaudio.mp3]], text by Thomas Francklin+Full Audio Version: [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/downloads/tripstothemoonaudio.mp3|tripstothemoonaudio.mp3]], text by Thomas Francklin
  
 ==== Sections of Trips to the Moon ==== ==== Sections of Trips to the Moon ====
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