THE ATHENAEUMLucian’s True HistoryLucian
Fantasy
Lucian’s True History
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textLucian wrote it in the second century as a parody of travellers’ tales, and begins by warning the reader that everything in it is a lie. His ship is carried by a whirlwind to the Moon, where the kings of the Moon and the Sun are at war, and later swallowed with its crew by a whale nearly two hundred miles long. Rabelais, Cyrano de Bergerac and Swift all learned from it.
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- Reading time
- About 1 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- Brobdingnag
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #45858. In the public domain in the United States.