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Lucian of Samosata · c. AD 125-after 180

Dialogues of the Gods

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The Dialogues of the Gods are twenty-six short mock-dramatic scenes in which the Olympian gods talk like quarrelling neighbours. The Fowlers omit seven of the dialogues, and the numbers of the nineteen that remain are those of the Greek text. Each scene is shown against its Greek, with the dialogue and section numbers used by scholars.

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Greek original with English translation, 4 passages, about 6300 words in English.
Translator
H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (1905)
Edition
Karl Jacobitz (ed.), Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Leipzig: Teubner, 1909 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as
Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues of the Gods 1.1 (by dialogue, section (Macleod numbering))

Contents · 4 passages

  1. 1.1–7.1Ares and Hermes; Hermes and Maia; Prometheus and Eros before Zeus; Io1391 words
  2. 9.1–15.2Ixion and the cloud; the infant Hermes; the birth of Athene; Heracles and Asclepius1755 words
  3. 16.1–20.2Hyacinth; the wives of Hephaestus; Hera and Leto; Selene; Eros and Rhea1583 words
  4. 22.1–25.2Hera and Dionysus; Eros and Athene; Helius and the sun-chariot; Castor and Pollux1523 words

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English translation by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (1905). Original text: Karl Jacobitz (ed.), Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Leipzig: Teubner, 1909 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus).

Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library, Greek text); translation public domain. Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.