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Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches

✍ Scribed by Lucian; Sidwell, Keith (translator)

Book ID
109144969
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2010
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141967417

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✦ Synopsis

Described by a later Greek historian as "a man seriously committed to raising a laugh", Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject. In this selection we see him conversing with his literary enemies, railing against hypocrisy and the vanity of human wealth and power, and taking a wry look at the power of lust and the unsatisfactory nature of deviant sexual practices.

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