Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias: An Essay in Literary and Cultural Translation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780916379711)

This important diachronic study of the life and works of Lucian of Samosata investigates the varied images of the Sophist from Syria from late Antiquity to the seventeenth-century. Using sources in Patristic literature, Byzantine glosses, the Neo-Latin satire of the Quattrocento, the Vitae Luciani, and Golden Age texts, Zappala demonstrates how the writings of Lucian are fragmented into a series of "authors" the historiographer, the writer of fantasy, the moralist, the atheist, the stylist. The study illustrates the dynamic relationship between a fixed text and the cultural translation which "unfixes" that text and spins it out onto surprising, paradoxical recreations. Both in its sources and its treatment, this work is a groundbreaking study which illuminates previously unstudied areas of the continuing mutation of Classical literature in the European heritage.

Author: Michael O. Zappala
ISBN-10: 091637971X
ISBN-13: 9780916379711
Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2015
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d