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Greek: Satire & Fable
The complete Lucian: the ancient world’s greatest satirist, whose True Histories, dialogues of the gods and the dead, and sceptical essays mock everything from philosophy to religion. Every text below is a complete parsing reader: click any word for its lemma, morphology, and full entry from the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon.
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- SayingsAesop (attributed)
- Aesopic Fables (P.Ryl. 493)Aesopica
- Fables from the Assendelft Wax TabletsAesopica
- Fables in DodecasyllablesAesopica
- Fables of the Anonymous Brancatian RhetorAesopica
- Proverbs of Aesop (Short Collection)Aesopica
- Proverbs with Interpretations (Proverbia Aesopi)Aesopica
- FablesAesopica
- Fables of Trees and Birds (P.Heid. 222)Anonymous
- PhilogelosAnonymous
- FablesAphthonius
- FablesBabrius
- FragmentsCrates of Thebes
- Fables (Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana)Pseudo-Dositheus
- Parodies (Fragment)Hegemon of Thasos
- Iambi (Fragment)Hermias of Curium
- Egyptian Iliad (Fragments)Hipparchus (parodist)
- Fables (from the Progymnasmata)Libanius
- AbdicatusLucian of Samosata
- Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementemLucian of Samosata
- AlexanderLucian of Samosata
- AnacharsisLucian of Samosata
- ApologiaLucian of Samosata
- BacchusLucian of Samosata
- Bis accusatus sive tribunaliaLucian of Samosata
- Calumniae non temere credundumLucian of Samosata
- CataplusLucian of Samosata
- ContemplantesLucian of Samosata
- De DomoLucian of Samosata
- De Morte PeregriniLucian of Samosata
- De SacrificiisLucian of Samosata
- De Syria deaLucian of Samosata
- De astrologiaLucian of Samosata
- De luctuLucian of Samosata
- De mercedeLucian of Samosata
- De parasito sive artem esse parasiticamLucian of Samosata
- De saltationeLucian of Samosata
- Dearum judiciumLucian of Samosata
- DemonaxLucian of Samosata
- Deorum conciliumLucian of Samosata
- Dialogi MariniLucian of Samosata
- Dialogi deorumLucian of Samosata
- Dialogi meretriciiLucian of Samosata
- Dialogi mortuorumLucian of Samosata
- DipsadesLucian of Samosata
- ElectrumLucian of Samosata
- EunuchusLucian of Samosata
- FugitiviLucian of Samosata
- GallusLucian of Samosata
- HarmonidesLucian of Samosata
- HerculesLucian of Samosata
- HermotimusLucian of Samosata
- HerodotusLucian of Samosata
- HesiodLucian of Samosata
- HippiasLucian of Samosata
- IcaromenippusLucian of Samosata
- ImaginesLucian of Samosata
- Judicium vocaliumLucian of Samosata
- Juppiter ConfutatusLucian of Samosata
- Juppiter TragoedusLucian of Samosata
- LexiphanesLucian of Samosata
- MacrobiiLucian of Samosata
- Muscae EncomiumLucian of Samosata
- NavigiumLucian of Samosata
- NecyomantiaLucian of Samosata
- NigrinusLucian of Samosata
- Patriae encomiumLucian of Samosata
- PhalarisLucian of Samosata
- Philopseudes sive incredulusLucian of Samosata
- PiscatorLucian of Samosata
- PodagraLucian of Samosata
- Pro imaginibusLucian of Samosata
- Pro lapsu inter salutandumLucian of Samosata
- PrometheusLucian of Samosata
- Prometheus es in verbisLucian of Samosata
- PseudologistaLucian of Samosata
- Quomodo historia conscribenda sitLucian of Samosata
- Rhetorum praeceptorLucian of Samosata
- SaturnaliaLucian of Samosata
- ScythaLucian of Samosata
- SoleocistaLucian of Samosata
- Somnium sive vita LucianiLucian of Samosata
- SymposiumLucian of Samosata
- TimonLucian of Samosata
- Toxaris vel amicitiaLucian of Samosata
- TyrannicidaLucian of Samosata
- Verae historiaeLucian of Samosata
- Vitarum auctioLucian of Samosata
- ZeuxisLucian of Samosata
- OcypusPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
- PhilopatrisPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
- Attic BanquetMatron of Pitane
- FragmentsMatron of Pitane
- Letter to the Wallet-BearersMenippus of Gadara (attributed)
- Fables of SyntipasMichael Andreopoulos (attributed)
- The Shepherd and the Wolf (Fable)Nicephorus Basilaces
- Riddle of the Eunuch and the BatPanarces (attributed)
- Fragments 1–4Sotades of Maroneia
- Fables (from the Orations)Themistius
- Fables (from the Letters)Theophylact Simocatta