Theon dialogoi

Theon dialogoi ( Greek : Θεῶν διάλογοι; Latin : Dialogi deorum; conversations with the gods) is the title of a collection of 26 dialogues by Lucian of Samosata . In these dialogues, predominantly Olympic deities appear in conversation with one another, with other deities, or with mortals. They treat amusing episodes of Greek mythology in a satirical way .

The dialogue partners at a glance

1. Prometheus and Zeus
2. Eros and Zeus
3. Zeus and Hermes
4. Zeus and Ganymede
5. Hera and Zeus
6. Hera and Zeus
7. Hephaestus and Apollo
8. Hephaestus and Zeus
9. Poseidon and Hermes
10. Hermes and Helios
11. Aphrodite and Selene
12. Aphrodite and Eros
13. Zeus, Asclepios and Heracles
14. Hermes and Apollon
15. Hermes and Apollon
16. Hera and Leto
17. Apollo and Hermes
18. Hera and Zeus
19. Aphrodite and Eros
20. Zeus, Hermes, Hera, Athene , Aphrodite, Paris
21. Ares and Hermes
22. Pan and Hermes
23. Apollo and Dionysus
24. Hermes and Maia
25. Zeus and Helios
26. Apollo and Hermes

expenditure

• Luciani Samosatensis opera . Ex recognitione Caroli Iacobitz, Vol.I. Editio stereotypa. Teubner, Leipzig 1921
• Luciani Opera. Edited by Matthew Donald MacLeod. Four 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 1974 (translation by Christoph Martin Wieland ), 2nd edition 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