Essai sur La Vie et les Œuvres de Lucien par Maurice Croiset Professeur à la Faculté des Lettres de Montpellier. Translate: Essay on The Life and Works of Lucian by Maurice Croiset Professor at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier

8vo.(5.5" x 8.25") 1882. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. Essai sur La Vie et les Œuvres de Lucien par Maurice Croiset Professeur à la Faculté des Lettres de Montpellier. Translate: Essay on The Life and Works of Lucian by Maurice Croiset Professor at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier. Quarter navy pebbled leather over marbled boards. All edges lightly speckled in brown, marbled endpapers.Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine rubbed, chipped. Lucian of Samosata was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek (mostly in the Attic Greek dialect popular during the Second Sophistic period).