Author: Lucian

Cited by

• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Olympos (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How could Homer have known about these things? When all this happened he was a camel in Bactria!
    FROM: The Dream, (None), Book, Syria
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: The First Men in the Moon (1901) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Three thousand stadia from the earth to the moon ... Marvel not, my comrade, if I appear talking to you on super-terrestrial and aerial topics. The long and the short of the matter is that I am running over the order of a Journey I have lately made.
    FROM: Icaromenippus, (None), NULL, Turkey
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size.... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.
    FROM: Tooke's Lucian. "The True History", (150), Novel, Italy
• Charles Robert Maturin (1)
  • IN: Fatal Revenge; Or The Family of Montorio (1807) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I wished not merely to see cities and woods as one can see them in maps, but men, and what they do, and what they say.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Walter Pater (1)
  • IN: Marius the Epicurean (1885) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cheimerinos oneiros, hote mêkistai hai vyktes.+ +"A winter's dream, when nights are longest.
    FROM: The Dream, Vol. 3., (None), NULL, Syria