Trips to the Moon

By Lucian of Samosata

Book Id: WPLBN0002950350
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File Size: 99.56 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Trips to the Moon
Author:	Lucian of Samosata
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Adventure, Advice
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Trips to the Moon
Historic Publication Date:	1780
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Of Samosata, B. L. (1780). Trips to the Moon. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History , and then caricatured in his True History , wherein is contained the account of a trip to the moon, a piece which must have been enjoyed by Rabelais, which suggested to Cyrano de Bergerac his Voyages to the Moon and to the Sun, and insensibly contributed, perhaps, directly or through Bergerac, to the conception of Gulliver’s Travels . The Icaro-Menippus Dialogue describes another trip to the moon, though its satire is more especially directed against the philosophers. (Summary from the Introduction)

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Adventure, Advice, Epistolary fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Satire