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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARYFOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,EDITED BYfT. E. PAGE,C.H., LITT.D.
LL.D.
tE. CAPPS,L. A.
PH.D., LL.D. L.H.D. E.
fW. H.
D.
ROUSE,
litt.d.
POST,
H.
WARMINGTON,
m.a., f.b.hist.soc.
LUCIANIV
LUCIANWITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY A. M. HARMONor YALE CNIVKKSITT
IN EIGHT VOLUMES
IV
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTDCAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESSMCMLXI
First printed 1925
Reprinted 1953, 1961
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTSFAOB
NOTELIST OF LUCIAN's
vi
WORKS
VU1
ANACHABSIS, OB ATHLETICSMBNIPPUS, OE THE DESCENT INTO HADES
....
71Ill
ON FtJNERALS {Dt Luctu)A PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING (RhetoTum prueceptor)
133 173
ALEXANDER THE FALSE PROPHETESSAYS IN PORTRAITURE (Imagines) ESSAYS IS POBTRAITUBE DEFENDED (Pro Imoginibus).
255297 337 413
THE OODDBS8E OF SUBRYE (De Syria Dea)INDEX
.
.
.
NOTEIn the constitution of this volume there are two
departures from the order in which Lucian's writingsare
presented
in
the Codex Vaticanus 90.
The
Asinus,left
which there follows the Menippus, has beenin the
out of this volume and relegated to the last
and Pro Imaginibus, which bysix
MS.
is
separated
pieces
from Imagines, has been broughtit.
forward and placed directly after
vi
LIST OF LUCIAN'S
WORKS
SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMESIN THIS EDITIONVolumePhalarisI
Bath Dionysus I and II Amber or The SwansThe Fly Nigrinus DemonaxThe HallMy Native Land Octogenarians True Story I and IISlanderThe Consonants at LawTheHippias or theHeracles
Carousal or The Lapiths.
VOLXTMK II
The Downward Journey or The Tyrant Zeus Catechized Zeus Rants The Dream or The Cock Prometheus Icaromenippus or The Sky-man Timon or The Misanthrope Charon or The Inspector Philosophies for Sale.
VolumeThe Dead Cometo Life or
III
The Double The Ignorant Book CollectorThe Dream or Lucian's CareerThe Parasite The Lover of LiesThe Judgement of the Goddesses OnIndictment or Trials by Jury
On
The FishermanSacrifices
Salaried Posts in Great Houses.
Volume IVAnacharsis or Athletics Menippus or The Descent into Hades On Funerals A Professor of Public Speaking Alexander the False Prophet Essays in Portraiture Essays
in
Portraiture Defended The Goddess of Surrye.
LIST
OF LUCIAN'S WORKSVolume
V
The Passing of Peregrinus The Runaways Toxaris or Friendship The Dance Lexiphanes The Eunuch Astrology The Mistaken Critic The Parliament of the Gods The Tyrannicide Disowned.
Volume VI
DipsadesSaturnalia HerodotusZeuxisPro Lapsu ApologiaHarmonidesHesiodusScythaHermotimus Prometheus EsNavigium.Historia
Volume VIIDialoguesof
the
Dead
Dialogues
of
thecf.
Sea-GodsVol. Ill)
Dialogues of the Gods (exc. Deorura Judicium Dialogues of the Courtesans.
Volume VIII
Lucius or the AssAmoresHalcyonDemosthenes Podagra Ocypus Cyniscus Philopatria ChariSoloecista
demus
Nero.
via
THE WORKS OF LUCIANANACHARSIS, OR ATHLETICSTaking us back to the early sixtli century, Lucian lets us about Greek athletics between Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, and that legendary figure, the Scythian Anacharsis, who came to Greece in the quest of wisdom just as Solon himself had gone to Egypt and Lycurgus of Sparta to Crete. K. G. Jacob, who tried to make out that Lucian was an ardent reformer, laid great stress on this dialogue as a tract designed to restore the importance of athletics in Greek education by recalling how much they meant in the good old days But Lucian, who in any case was no laudator temporis acti, says nothing of any significance elsewhere to indicate either that he thought athletics especiallj' in need of reform or that he felt any particular interest in them and if the Anacharsis had been written for any such purpose, surely it would have ended with the conversion of the Scythian to the standpointlisten to a conversation;
of the Greek.
Let us say rather that Lucian, who was especially interested in Anacharsis and Solon, as we see from his Scythian, wished, perhaps for the edification of an Athenian audience, to present them in conversation, and shrewdly picks athletics for their theme as that feature of Greek civilization which would be most striking and least intelligible to the foreigner, the ' child of Nature.' The conversation takes place in the Lyceum at Athens The opening sentence assumes that Anacharsis has just been enquiring about something else, and now turns to a
new
topic.
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