Wednesday 23 March 2016 at 16:38
With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and re-drew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English speaking world.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/