Lucian on Reading, Performing, and the Difference

Lucian's writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian's best-known dialogues and stories such as Hermotimus, Charon, Icaromenippus, Nigrinus, Rooster, and True Stories.

Autorentext

Stephen E. Kidd is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University (U.S.A), where he specializes in ancient Greek literature of the classical and imperial periods. He is the author of Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy (2014) and Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (2019).

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Hermotimus and the Problem of the Sceptic Self; 2. Life as Theater: Charon, Icaromenippus and Not Being There; 3. Nigrinus on Not Being There Together; 4. Viewing Lives in Rooster; 5. Reading and Believing: The Challenge of Lucian's True Stories; 6. Preconceptions and what Readers Cannot Control; 7. Character, Emotion, and Trust in Lucian's Panthea Dialogues; Conclusions.