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Schutzumschlag abgenutzt, insgesamt etwas vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Dust jacket worn, overall somewhat yellowed, otherwise in good condition. - Lucian of Samosata, one of the most prolific writers of antiquity, would have disappeared from history almost completely, had not the ancients themselves preserved a large amount of his work. For the lives of almost all other ancient writers we have an extensive body of information; for Lucian, � a succession of questions and mysteries. Born in 117 (or thereabouts), Lucian built a public career out of his writing. As Barry Baldwin says, �He was well aware of one deadly rule of the game: publish or perish.� He published a great deal, and the importance of his work lends heightened interest to an understanding of his life and his career. In this, the first full-length treatment of Lucian in English, Barry Baldwin examines the evidence for Lucian�s life, and tries to reconstruct as much as possible from contradictory and elusive data. This book looks at Lucian the writer and careerist, rather than just his writing, and in its treatment of this major figure, casts new light on the development of culture in the Greek world under Roman domination.