Nekrikoi dialogoi
Nekrikoi dialogoi ( Greek Νεκρικοὶ διάλογοι; "Talks of the Dead", also Dialogi mortuorum ) is the title of a collection of thirty dialogues by Lucian of Samosata , which take place in Hades . In the satire created around 166/167, gods and people have their say. A German translation comes from Christoph Martin Wieland .
Among the works of Lucian's dead talks were affected, include, among other things, based in the underworld dialogue Phalarismus of Ulrich von Hutten , Les Héros de novel by Boileau and Dialogues des morts of Fontenelle and Fenelon .
The history of the impact of Lukian's work finally culminated in the development of the conversations of the dead into a separate European literary genre, also known as the Lucian genre after the originator of its archetype .
See also
output
- Luciani Opera. Edited by Matthew Donald MacLeod. 4 volumes. Oxford Classical Texts. Clarendon, Oxford 1972-1987
Translations
- Lukian: Works in three volumes . Edited by Jürgen Werner and Herbert Greiner-Mai . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1981
- Lukian: Conversations of the Gods, Sea Gods, Dead and Hetaera. Based on Christoph Martin Wieland, translated and edited by Otto Seel . Reclam, Ditzingen 1987. ISBN 978-3-15-001133-1
