Lucian of Samosata · c. AD 125-after 180

Slander

Name: Slander
Author: Lucian of Samosata

Περὶ τοῦ μὴ ῥᾳδίως πιστεύειν διαβολῇ

Ancient Sources / Lucian of Samosata / Slander

Slander, in Greek On not believing slander rashly, is a moral essay with a famous ecphrasis of a painting by Apelles. It uses stories from myth and history to show how slander ruins friendships. The Greek is divided into 32 sections.

Read from the start

Text: Greek original with English translation, 2 passages, about 3600 words in English.
Translator: H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (1905)
Edition: A. M. Harmon (ed.), Lucian, vol. I, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as: Lucian of Samosata, Slander 1 (by section)

Contents · 2 passages

1–14Ignorance and Apelles' painting of Slander1970 words
15–32Famous victims; the remedy1666 words

More by Lucian of Samosata

Dialogues of the Gods (4 passages)
The Judgement of the Goddesses (2 passages)
Dialogues of the Sea-Gods (3 passages)
Dialogues of the Dead (8 passages)
Timon (4 passages)
Menippus (2 passages)
Prometheus (2 passages)
A Literary Prometheus (1 passage)
The Downward Journey (3 passages)
On the Dance (5 passages)
The Parliament of the Gods (2 passages)
Dionysus (1 passage)
The Parasite (5 passages)
The Ignorant Book-Collector (3 passages)
All works by Lucian of Samosata

English translation by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (1905). Original text: A. M. Harmon (ed.), Lucian, vol. I, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913 (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.

Slander

Contents · 2 passages

More by Lucian of Samosata

Cite This Text