Travel in the ancient world

History

Lionel Casson

Ancient Civilizations

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Photographs of art and artifacts illustrate a discussion of ancient Roman attitudes, activities, professions, religious beliefs, rituals, entertainment, government, and technological developments

The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Rome

World

Simon&Schuster

"Lucian's genial mockery," writes Lionel Casson, "aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern." Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection. A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he also excelled in straight narrative, as in the elaborate spoof "A True Story" and the old folk tale outrageously retold, "Lucius, the Ass." His skeptical mind and imaginative irony have influenced generations of artists and writers, and now in Professor Casson's new translations can be freshly enjoyed today.

Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)

Literature & Fiction

Lucian, Of Samosata

Humor & Satire

W.W.Norton&Company

Great Ages of Man: Ancient Egypt

Random House Value Publishing

Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first published in 1959, especially that from archaeology's newest branch, marine archaeology. Casson does what no other author has done: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India.

The Ancient Mariners

Princeton University Press

Ancient Egypt (Great Ages of Man)

TIME/LIFE

Ancient Trade and Society

Business & Money

Wayne State Univ Pr

Beautiful color photographs along with fascinating historical information about Egyptian pharaohs, including King Tut, King Ahmose, Ramses and others.

The pharaohs (Treasures of the world)

Stonehenge

Pharaohs

Stonehenge Press

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Books by Lionel Casson