Lucian and His Roman Voices

<p><em>Lucian and His Roman Voices</em> examines cultural exchanges political propaganda and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian his contemporary Roman authors and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus this book explores how Lucian a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman citizen was affected by the socio-political climate of his time reacted to it and how he ‘corresponded’ with the Roman intelligentsia. In the process this unique volume raises questions such as: What did the title ‘Roman citizen’ mean to native Romans and to others? How were language and literature politicized and how did they become a means of social propaganda? This study reveals Lucian’s recondite historical and authorial personas and the ways in which his literary activity portrayed second-century reality from the perspectives of the Romans Greeks pagans Christians and citizens of the Roman Empire</p>