The Online Books Page

Satire, Greek -- Early works to 1800

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Satire, Greek
• Satire -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Excerpta quædam ex Luciani Samosatensis operibus. (Apud J. Clarke & J. Rivington ... ;, 1745), by Lucian of Samosata, Nathaniel Kent, and Nathaniel Kent (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools, With Short Notes in Greek (in Greek, with English introduction; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lucien : dialogues des morts. (Hachette, 1892), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graecorum satyrographorum fragmenta exceptis iis quae sunt Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis (F. Duemmleri, 1837), by Karl Friebel and F. Larsow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carmen inscriptum Peri gynaikōn (svmtibvs vidvae Vandenhoek, 1781), by of Amorgos Semonides, Christian Gottlob Heyne, and Georg David Koeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songe, ou, Le coq de Lucien (A. Delalain, 1833), by Lucian of Samosata and E. Geruzez (page images at HathiTrust)
• De poesi Graecorum satyrica (Carolus Boldt, 1873), by R. Eduardson Meeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues des morts (Hachette, 1843), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corpusculum poesis epicae Graecae ludibundae. (in aedibvs B. G. Teubneri, 1888), by Curt Wachsmuth, Paul Brandt, and of Gela Archestratus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausgewählte schriften... (Teubner, 1863), by Lucian of Samosata and Karl Jacobitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres (Belles Lettres, 1993), by Lucian of Samosata and Jacques Bompaire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The select dialogues of Lucian ... notes in English. (Philadelphia, 1806), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)
• The select dialogues of Lucian ... notes in English. (Edinburgh, 1811), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sillographorum Graecorum reliquiae (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1885), by Curt Wachsmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• De phlyacographis Graecis. (Breslau, 1875), by Ernst Sommerbrodt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucian (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by W. Lucas Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Quotation and Allusion in Lucian (New York: King's Crown Press, 1941), by Fred W. Householder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uber die ironie in der griechischen dichtung inbesondere bei Homer, Aeschylus und Sophokles. (Universitäts-buchhandlung, 1897), by Alfred Schöne (page images at HathiTrust)
• De scriptoribus satiricis ... (1863), by F. V. Fritzschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucian, satirist and artist. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1963), by Francis Greenleaf Allinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metamorphoses ascribed to Lucius of Patrae, its content, nature, and authorship (Press of the New Era Printing Co., 1920), by B. E. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve storia della satira in Grecia, in Roma e in Italia. (Cremona, 1891), by Emilia Soldini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graecorum satyrographorum fragmenta : exceptisiis quae sung Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis, collegit et illustravit Carolus Friebel. Post mortem auctoris edi curavit dr. F. larsow. Praemissa est expositio de dramatis satyrici origine atque natura, et subiunctae sung emendationes in auctores graecos et latinos. (Sumptibus Ferdinandi Duemmleri, 1837), by Carl Friebel and F. Larsow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucian (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by W. Lucas Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Opera (Lipsiae, 1836), by Lucian of Samosata and Karl Jacobitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Todtengespräche (Schwickert, 1833), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections; [Gr.] with a Latin translation and Eng. notes ... index and ... lexicon ... comp. ... by J. Walker, corrected and augmented by G. B. Wheeler. (M'Glashan & Gill, in the 19th century), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)

• Werken van Lucianus den Samosatenser (By Johannes ten Hoorn ..., 1679), by Lucian of Samosata and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lucian of Samosata: From The Greek, With the Comments and Illustrations of Wieland (includes the True History; 2 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by William Tooke, contrib. by Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Lucian's True History (London: Privately printed, 1894), by Lucian of Samosata, trans. by Francis Hickes, contrib. by Charles Whibley, illust. by William Strang, Joseph Benwell Clark, and Aubrey Beardsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lucian's Wonderland: Being a Translation of the "Vera Historia" (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1899), by Lucian of Samosata, trans. by St. John Basil Wynne Willson, illust. by A. Payne Garnett
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• A new literal translation of Stock's Lucian (Printed by B. Smith, for P. Byrne, bookseller and stationer, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata, D. B. Hickie, and Joseph Stock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Lucian (Harper & brothers, 1892), by Lucian of Samosata and Emily James Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucian's True History, by of Samosata Lucian, trans. by Francis Hickes, contrib. by Charles Whibley, illust. by Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Benwell Clark, and William Strang (Gutenberg ebook)

• Œuvres (Belles Lettres, 1993), by Lucian of Samosata and Jacques Bompaire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Luciade, ou L'Ane, de Lucius de Patras (Rapilly, 1824), by Lucian of Samosata (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sämtliche Werke (Im Verlag der Weidmannischen Buchhandlung, 1788), by Lucian of Samosata and Christoph Martin Wieland (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Select Dialogues of Lucian; To Which is Added, A New Literal Translation in Latin, With Notes in English (in Greek, Latin, and English; New York: G. Long, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by Edward Murphy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The select dialogues of Lucian (Printed and published by George Long, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata and Edward Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The select dialogues of Lucian. To which is added, a new literal translation in Latin, with notes in English. (Printed by Joseph James, Chesnut-street., 1789), by Lucian of Samosata and Edward Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre incognite australi, ed ai regni delle scimie, e de'cinocefali. Nuovamente tradotti da un manoscritto inglese ... (Berna, 1764), by Zaccaria Seriman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern essay on the thirteenth satyr of Juvenal by Henry Higden. (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1686), by Henry Higden and Juvenal. Satura 13 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The committee; or popery in masquerade (London : printed by Mary Clark, for Henry Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1681), by Roger L'Estrange (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Le pot aux roses, ou, Correspondance secrete et familiere de l'honorable Thomas Boot, cordonnier royal, avec Sa Majesté George III Roi de la Grande-Bretagne, et ses ministres, les Lords Stormnont, Sandwich, Germaine et North, sur les affaires présentes de l'Europe. (s.n., 1782), by T. Boot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case is altred [sic]: both thy case, and my case, and every mans case. With a direction for a speedy present way to make every thing dog-cheap. ([London? : s.n.], Printed in the yeare 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The manner of the election of Philip Herbert late Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery, Baron Herbert of Cardiffe and Sherland, Lord Parre and Rosse of Kendall, Lord Fitzhugh, Marmion and S. Quintin, Lord Warden of the Stanneries, and High Steward of the Dutchy in the county of Devon and Cornwall, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Constable of the Honour and Castle of Windzor, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter for Knight of the Shire for Bark-shire, by almost forty free-holders, being far the major part of the free-holders of that county. Together with tvvo speeches, the one spoken by a wel-affected tanner: the other, a godly speech of his Lordships, as it was heard with much content without an oath. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Man in the Moon: or, Travels into the Lunar Regions, by the Man of the People (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Murray, 1783), by William Thomson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
• The History of John Bull, by John Arbuthnot, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• The knave of clubbes. (printed for W. Ferebrand, 1609), by Samuel Rowlands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumental records for the year 1980 (Printed for G. Kearsly, at No 46, in Fleet Street, 1780), by Herbert Croft and George Kearsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The metamorphosis of Ajax : a cloacinean satire ; with the Anatomy and apology (from the Press of C. Whittingham, 1814), by John Harington and H. F. B. Brett-Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second volume of the writings of the author of the True-born Englishman. Some whereof never before printed. (Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1705), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues, by Jonathan Swift, ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cocke Lorelles Bote, contrib. by John Philip Edmond and Wynkyn de Worde (Gutenberg ebook)
• Humors Looking Glasse, by Samuel Rowlands (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Works of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester: Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems, by John Wilmot Rochester (Gutenberg ebook)
• The doting old dad, or, The unequal match betwixt a rich muckworm of fourscore and ten, and a young lass scarce nineteen. When dads thus old, whose blood is cold, young damsels seeks to wed; for their neglect, they may expect horns grafted on their head. To the tune of, All trades. This may be printed, R.P. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the sign [of] the Golden-Ball, near the Hospita[l] gate, in West-Smithfield., [between 1685-1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An extemporary ansvver to a cluster of drunkards, met together at Schiedam: made by Timothy Gunton, who was compelled thereto, upon his refusall to drink the Kings health. Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull, profitable, commendable, or reasonable? ([London : s.n., 1648]), by Timothy Gunton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A description of time applied to this present time. With times merry orders to be observed. (London : Printed by I. O[kes] for Francis Grave, and are to be sold at his shop on Snow Hill, neare the Sarazens head, 1638), by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A pick-tooth for the Pope: or The pack-mans Pater Noster Set down in a dialogue, betwixt a pack-man, and a priest. Translated out of Dutch by S. I. S. and newly augmented and enlarged by his son, R. S. (Glasgow : by Robert Sanders, printer to the Town, and are to be sold in his shop, M.DC.LXIX. [1669]), by James Sempill and Robert Sempill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tarltons newes out of purgatorie Onely such a iest as his iigge, fit for gentlemen to laugh at an houre, &c. Published by an old companion of his, Robin Goodfellow. (At London : Printed [by R. Robinson] for T. G[ubbin] and T. N[ewman], 1590), by Richard Tarlton and Robert Armin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dog of vvar, or, The trauels of Drunkard, the famous curre of the Round-Woolstaple in Westminster His seruices in the Netherlands, and lately in France, with his home returne. By Iohn Taylor. The argument and contents of this discourse is in the next page or leafe. ([London] : Printed by I Perse I, for O perse O, and & perse &, and are to be solde at the signe of the Æ dipthong, [1628?]), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A most horrible, terrible, tollerable, termagant satyre most fresh and newly made, and prest in print, and if it bee not lik'd, the Divells in't. ([London : Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1639]), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A piece of Friar Bacons brazen-heads prophesie. By William Terilo (London : Printed by T. C[reede] for Arthur Iohnson, dwelling in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the white Horse, 1604), by William Terilo and Nicholas Breton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• These are to will and require you, that forthwith upon sight hereof you make your personall appearance with your shovell and pik-axe before us the commissioners appointed for the survey of the high-waies at the gravell-pits near Palmers Green: ... ([London : s.n., 1658]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laugh and lie dovvne: or, The worldes folly (Printed at London : [By William Jaggard] for Ieffrey Chorlton, and are to be sold at his shop, at the great north dore of saint Paules, 1605), by Cyril Tourneur (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A frolick to Horn-fair with a walk from Cuckold's-point thro' Deptford and Greenwich. (London : Printed and sold by J. How ..., 1700), by Edward Ward (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Abuses stript, and whipt. Or Satirical essayes. By George Wyther. Diuided into two bookes (At London : Printed by G. Eld, for Francis Burton, and are to be solde at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Green-Dragon, 1613), by George Wither (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A satyre dedicated to His most excellent Maiestie. By George VVither, Gentleman. (London : Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for George Norton, and are to be solde at the signe of the red-Bull, neere Temple-barre, 1614), by George Wither (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Beware the cat. (Imprinted at London : In Fleetestrete at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam Gryffith: and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Church-yarde, Anno. 1570), by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A malicious man makes reasons To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Prince Butler prays ... ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Prince Butler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A playn and fynall confutacion: Of cammells corlyke oblatracion ([London] : Imprinted in Fletstrit by Wyllyam Gryffyth, a lyttle aboue the condit at the syne of the Gryffyn, [1552?]), by Thomas Churchyard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The maner of the world now a dayes ([London : s.n., 1562?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The blacke booke (London : Printed by T.C. for Ieffrey Chorlton, 1604), by Thomas Middleton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tom of all trades. Or The plaine path-vvay to preferment Being a discovery of a passage to promotion in all professions, trades, arts, and mysteries. Found out by an old travailer in the sea of experience, amongst the inchanted islands of ill fortune. Now published for common good. By Thomas Povvell. (London : Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Benjamen Fisher, and are to bee sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate-street, 1631), by Thomas Powell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The honestie of this age· Proouing by good circumstance that the world was neuer honest till now. By Barnabee Rych Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. (Printed at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for T[homas] A[dams], 1614), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. (London : Printed [by John Legat] for Thomas Adams, 1616), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Good nevves and bad nevves. By S.R. (London : Printed [by George Purslowe] for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his shop within the Hospitall gate in Smith-field, 1622), by Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Humors antique faces. Selections (London : Imprinted by Ed. Allde for VVilliam Ferebrand and are to be sold at his shop in the popes-head Pallace, right ouer against the Tauerne-dore, 1608), by Samuel Rowlands and Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The knaue of clubbs (Printed at London : [By Edward Allde] for W. Ferebrand, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace, 1609), by Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Looke to it: for, Ile stabbe ye (Imprinted at London : By E. Allde for W. Ferbrand, and George Loftes, and are to be solde in Popes-head Allie, 1604), by Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The night-rauen. By S.R. (London : Printed by G: Eld for Iohn Deane and Thomas Baily, 1620), by Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Young-whelpe of the olde-dogge. (London : Printed by Tho: Creede, for Richard Meighen, and Thomas Iones, and are to be solde at S. Clements Church, without Temple-Barre, 1615), by Henry Parrot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conference held at Angelo Castle, between the Pope, the Emperor, and the King of Spaine. ([London : S.n., 1619?]), by Paul, Matthias, and Philip (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true character of a town beau. By T.O. Gent. ([London : printed, and sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1692]), by T. O. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orbilius vapulans or A juniper lecture for a moth-eaten scholar By the authour of the Coffee scuffle. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1662), by fl. 1662 Woolnoth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Epulæ Thyesteæ: or, The thanksgiving-dinner: where the Devill finds all, meat, cooks, guests, &c. Together with the city present. Also a short grace after a long dinner. And a God-speed. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1648 [i.e. 1649]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discovery of divers sorts of asses: with the description of their condition, setting them forth in proper colours, according to Smithfields fancies and inventions Also, follies petition against all sorts of fooles and asses, desiring to have them banisht to the Ile of Sillie. (London : July 8. London printed for Iohn Powel, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701 Found several years after his death, hid under an old close-stool-pan. And now publish'd by his executors, to make some people merry, and the rest mad. Containing, comical predictions for every month in the year, carefully calculated, to make both sexes shake their sides till they break their twatling-strings. (London : printed, and are to be sold by M. Fabian at Mercers-Chappel, in Cheapside, 1671), by Poor Robin and William Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Resolves of the Committee of Safety. Whereunto is added the Saints dictionary: or, A catalogue of some pretious books chiefly intended for the use of those that are well-affected to this good new cause. (London, : [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1659), by England and Wales. Committee of Safety (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To all gentlemen, ladies, and others, whether of city, town, or country: Alexander Bendo wisheth all health and prosperity. ([London : s.n., 1700]), by John Wilmot Rochester (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Fox-Hunting. (London : s.n., [1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [Cocke Lorelles bote.] ([Inpry[n]ted at London : In the flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, 1518?]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The hue and cry after those rambling protonotaries of the times. Mercurius Elenticus. Britanicus. Melancholicus. and Aulicus. Published by authority. (London : Printed by B. Alsop, MDCLI. [1651]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The last sayings of a mouse lately starved in a cup-board. As they were taken, in short-hand, by a zealous rat-catcher, who list'ned at the key-hole of the cup-board door. ([London] : Printed for S.P.Q.L., 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [A] caveat for wives to love their husbands or, Pleasant news from hell. Written in Italian by that grand politician Nicholas Machiavel and now translated into English for a Christmas-gigg. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year 1660), by Niccolò Machiavelli (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sea-cabbin dialogue, between two travellers lately come from Holland Translated out of Dutch; and dedicated to all those who desire to understand things rightly. (London : printed by T.M., 1652) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The shooe-makers glory: or, The princely history of the gentle craft shewing what renowned Princes, heroes and worthies, have been of the shooe makers trade, both in this, and other kingdoms; likewise why it is call'd the gentle-craft; and that they say a shooe-maker's son is a Prince born, &c. The whole adorn'd with new cuts suitable to the subject. (London : printed by and for W.O. and are to be sold by C. Bates in Pye-corner, [1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.