Myth, Satire, and Lucian’s “True History”

By |2020-03-31T11:53:07-05:00December 12th, 2018|Categories: Books, Education, Great Books, History, Humanities, Literature, Myth, Truth|

For the ancient myth-maker, there is something at the heart of all of human events that is worth preserving, something marvelous and worthy of renown, even if the account is not entirely true to life… The second-century satirist, Lucian of Samosata, makes the following inflammatory statement in his True History: [Historical accounts] are intended to have [...]