Lucian of Samosata Vivus et Redivivus, dir. C. Ligota, L. Panizza

Christopher Ligota, Letizia Panizza (ed.), Lucian of Samosata Vivus et Redivivus.   London/Turin:  The Warburg Institute-Nino Aragno Editore, coll. "Warburg Institute Colloquia" n°10, 2007, 222p. 

Isbn (ean13): 978-0-85481-138-0. 

Recension par Sonia Sabnis (Reed College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.08.11

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The essays in this volume bring together, in a revised and updated form, papers presented at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in December 1995.  As the title suggests, Lucian is considered both in his contemporary environment and in his Nachleben, and the overall purpose is to show the freshness and resilience of the presence in European culture of an author whose well-aimed satirical wit has, from his time to ours, led to defensive attempts at repression and expulsion from the cultural canon.  As Kurt Tucholsky put it, nothing was sacred to Lucian, which makes him a ‘friend, cousin, brother, comrade at arms'.

Sommaire:

Introduction

Simon Swain, The Three Faces of Lucian

Christopher Ligota, Lucian on the Writing of History: Obsolescence Survived

Letizia Panizza, Vernacular Lucian in Renaissance Italy: Translations and Transformations

Isabelle Pantin, Kepler et Lucien: Des voyages extraordinaires au ludus philosophicus

Jean Michel Massing, A Few More Calumnies: Lucian and the Visual Arts

Emmanuel Bury, Un sophiste impérial à l'Académie: Lucien en France au XVIIe siècle.

Luc Deitz, Wieland's Lucian

Manuel Baumbach, Lucian in German Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

Index of Names and Titles