Ἡρόδοτος ἢ Ἀετίων

Name: Herodotus or Aetion
Author: Lucian

aka Herodotus

Herodotus or Aetion

Author

Lucian

Language

Koine Greek

Year

c. 150

Country

Roman Empire

Genre

Speech / Dialogue

ancient world

graeco-roman

An account of how the historian Herodotus and the painter Aetion both publicised their works at the Olympic Games. It contains a description of Aetion's picture of the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana.

Translations

Vol. VI: How to Write History. The Dipsads. Saturnalia. Herodotus or Aetion. Zeuxis or Antiochus. A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting. Apology for the "Salaried Posts in Great Houses." Harmonides. A Conversation with Hesiod. The Scythian or The Consul. Hermotimus or Concerning the Sects

tr. K. Kilburn · Harvard University Press · United States · 1913

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