List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Introduction Simon Goldhill; Part I. 2. Lucian and the culture of criticism Richard Hunter; 3. Lucian's poetics Emma Greensmith; 4. Lucian and philosophy Peter van Nuffelen; 5. On believing in Lucian: the religious polemics Tim Whitmarsh; 6. Lucian and art history Jas Elsner; 7. Some queer entanglements in Lucian's Erotes Alistair Blanshard; Part II. 8. In praise of the fly Emily Kneebone; 9. Lucian's Phalaris Peter Thonemann; 10. Lucian the doorkeeper: inside and outside in Lucianic Poetics Marco Formisano; 11. Geographical authority and bodily entanglements in Lucian's True Histories Jason König; 12. Menippus goes to the moon: fantastical astronomy and Lucian's scientific imagination Karen ni Mhealligh; 13. Lucian and Christianity Eleni Bozia; 14. Identification and distance in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans: subjects and their absences Dawn LaValle Norman; 15. 'Here's Looking at You…': the dialogues of the gods and the erotics of the visual Simon Goldhill; Part III. 16. Lucian of Samosata in renaissance Italy Irene Fantappié; 17. Lucian goes north: the Luciani opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More James Romm; 18. From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: Voltaire, Leopardi and a new avenue of philosophical critique Giacomo Loi; Bibliography; Index.