THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARYFOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,EDITED BYfT. E. PAGE,C.H., LITT.D.

LL.D.

tE. CAPPS,L. A.

PH.D., LL.D. L.H.D. E.

fW. H.

D.

ROUSE,

litt.d.

POST,

H.

WARMINGTON,

m.a., f.b.hist.soc.

LUCIANIV

LUCIANWITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY A. M. HARMONor YALE CNIVKKSITT

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

IV

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTDCAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESSMCMLXI

First printed 1925

Reprinted 1953, 1961

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTSFAOB

NOTELIST OF LUCIAN's

vi

WORKS

VU1

ANACHABSIS, OB ATHLETICSMBNIPPUS, OE THE DESCENT INTO HADES

....

71Ill

ON FtJNERALS {Dt Luctu)A PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING (RhetoTum prueceptor)

133 173

ALEXANDER THE FALSE PROPHETESSAYS IN PORTRAITURE (Imagines) ESSAYS IS POBTRAITUBE DEFENDED (Pro Imoginibus).

255297 337 413

THE OODDBS8E OF SUBRYE (De Syria Dea)INDEX

.

.

.

NOTEIn the constitution of this volume there are two

departures from the order in which Lucian's writingsare

presented

in

the Codex Vaticanus 90.

The

Asinus,left

which there follows the Menippus, has beenin the

out of this volume and relegated to the last

and Pro Imaginibus, which bysix

MS.

is

separated

pieces

from Imagines, has been broughtit.

forward and placed directly after

vi

LIST OF LUCIAN'S

WORKS

SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMESIN THIS EDITIONVolumePhalarisI

Bath Dionysus I and II Amber or The SwansThe Fly Nigrinus DemonaxThe HallMy Native Land Octogenarians True Story I and IISlanderThe Consonants at LawTheHippias or theHeracles

Carousal or The Lapiths.

VOLXTMK II

The Downward Journey or The Tyrant Zeus Catechized Zeus Rants The Dream or The Cock Prometheus Icaromenippus or The Sky-man Timon or The Misanthrope Charon or The Inspector Philosophies for Sale.

VolumeThe Dead Cometo Life or

III

The Double The Ignorant Book CollectorThe Dream or Lucian's CareerThe Parasite The Lover of LiesThe Judgement of the Goddesses OnIndictment or Trials by Jury

On

The FishermanSacrifices

Salaried Posts in Great Houses.

Volume IVAnacharsis or Athletics Menippus or The Descent into Hades On Funerals A Professor of Public Speaking Alexander the False Prophet Essays in Portraiture Essays

in

Portraiture Defended The Goddess of Surrye.

LIST

OF LUCIAN'S WORKSVolume

V

The Passing of Peregrinus The Runaways Toxaris or Friendship The Dance Lexiphanes The Eunuch Astrology The Mistaken Critic The Parliament of the Gods The Tyrannicide Disowned.

Volume VI

DipsadesSaturnalia HerodotusZeuxisPro Lapsu ApologiaHarmonidesHesiodusScythaHermotimus Prometheus EsNavigium.Historia

Volume VIIDialoguesof

the

Dead

Dialogues

of

thecf.

Sea-GodsVol. Ill)

Dialogues of the Gods (exc. Deorura Judicium Dialogues of the Courtesans.

Volume VIII

Lucius or the AssAmoresHalcyonDemosthenes Podagra Ocypus Cyniscus Philopatria ChariSoloecista

demus

Nero.

via

THE WORKS OF LUCIANANACHARSIS, OR ATHLETICSTaking us back to the early sixtli century, Lucian lets us about Greek athletics between Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, and that legendary figure, the Scythian Anacharsis, who came to Greece in the quest of wisdom just as Solon himself had gone to Egypt and Lycurgus of Sparta to Crete. K. G. Jacob, who tried to make out that Lucian was an ardent reformer, laid great stress on this dialogue as a tract designed to restore the importance of athletics in Greek education by recalling how much they meant in the good old days But Lucian, who in any case was no laudator temporis acti, says nothing of any significance elsewhere to indicate either that he thought athletics especiallj' in need of reform or that he felt any particular interest in them and if the Anacharsis had been written for any such purpose, surely it would have ended with the conversion of the Scythian to the standpointlisten to a conversation;

of the Greek.

Let us say rather that Lucian, who was especially interested in Anacharsis and Solon, as we see from his Scythian, wished, perhaps for the edification of an Athenian audience, to present them in conversation, and shrewdly picks athletics for their theme as that feature of Greek civilization which would be most striking and least intelligible to the foreigner, the ' child of Nature.' The conversation takes place in the Lyceum at Athens The opening sentence assumes that Anacharsis has just been enquiring about something else, and now turns to a

new

topic.

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