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Luciano di Samosata, >La nave o Le preghiere
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Luciano di Samosata, >La nave o Le preghiere
Current price: $188.99
Barnes and Noble
Luciano di Samosata, >La nave o Le preghiere
Current price: $188.99
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The volume provides readers with an extensive introduction, a new translation, and a full literary and philological updated commentary of Lucian’s
The Ship or The Whishes
. In the introduction there's an explanation of the structure and the dating of the dialogue, of the author's poetics and the peculiar features of the work: the relationship with the literary traditions, the connection with contemporary reality, the psychological characterisation of characters, the stylistic and lexical features. The comment offers a systematic dissertation on linguistic, historical, artistic and sociocultural aspects of the text, in order to provide a complete undestanding of the work and of its author's personality.
The Ship or The Whishes
. In the introduction there's an explanation of the structure and the dating of the dialogue, of the author's poetics and the peculiar features of the work: the relationship with the literary traditions, the connection with contemporary reality, the psychological characterisation of characters, the stylistic and lexical features. The comment offers a systematic dissertation on linguistic, historical, artistic and sociocultural aspects of the text, in order to provide a complete undestanding of the work and of its author's personality.