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Dialogi Marini (Dialogues of the Sea-Gods) is a suite of miniature dialogues by Lucian of Samosata, written in Ancient Greek in the second century AD. Nereids, river-gods, Tritons, and Poseidon gossip about the loves and quarrels of the deep: Polyphemus’s clumsy courtship of Galatea, Europa on the bull’s back, the birth of Helen, and other salt-water episodes of myth.
These sketches show the satirist at his lightest, turning epic and lyric material into brief, sparkling conversation. Long used to introduce students to Greek dialogue, they influenced Renaissance and later imitations of the form, and they preserve charming versions of myths told nowhere else so engagingly.
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