Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Lucian of Samosata(c.120–c.180 CE)

Lucian of Samosata is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks and manuscripts. One work is named, most often in Notebook: Artists, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Notebooks · Manuscripts
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Two designs made by / Raphael from the / descriptions given by / Lucian of two pictures / by Aetion and Apelles, / Marriage de Roxana / La Calomnie [...] at Modena the carefully / finished drawing of Calumny / (from descrip. Lucian) 1”
Herodotus [description of Aetion's Marriage of Roxana] and De calumnia [On Slander] · Notebook: Artists

When Fuller engaged with Lucian of Samosata

No datable encounters with Samosata, Lucian of have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Samosata in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notebook: Artists

p20, p31
mentionedManuscript page
“Two designs made by / Raphael from the / descriptions given by / Lucian of two pictures / by Aetion and Apelles, / Marriage de Roxana / La Calomnie [...] at Modena the carefully / finished drawing of Calumny / (from descrip.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller does not name the specific work; two distinct writings by Lucian are invoked: his description of Aetion's 'Marriage of Roxana' and his ekphrasis of Apelles' 'Calumny'.

n.d.—

Plan for a Life of Goethe

p19
mentionedManuscript page
“Note that Dr Albrecht was fond of nothing so much as reading Lucian _ what does that bode?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Plan for a Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.