{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg053.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg053.local002","title":"Πῶς δεῖ ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν","titleGreek":"Πῶς δεῖ ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian of Samosata","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Kenneth Kilburn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Lucian with an English Translation","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1959","volume":"6","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/luciankilb06luciuoft/page/3/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Πῶς δεῖ ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Lucian with an English Translation, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1959. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg053.local002","excerpt":"Αβδηρίταις φασὶ Λυσιμάχου ἤδη βασιλεύοντος ἐμπεσεῖν τι νόσημα, ὦ καλὲ Φίλων, τοιοῦτο· πυρέττειν μὲν γὰρ τὰ πρῶτα πανδημεὶ ἅπαντας ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης εὐθὺς ἐρρωμένως καὶ λιπαρεῖ τῷ πυρετῷ, περὶ δὲ τὴν ἑβδόμην τοῖς μὲν αἷμα πολὺ ἐκ ῥινῶν ῥυέν, τοῖς δ’ ἱδρὼς ἐπιγενόμενος, πολὺς καὶ οὗτος, ἔλυσεν τὸν πυρετόν. ἐς γελοῖον δέ τι πάθος περιίστα τὰς γνώμας αὐτῶν· ἅπαντες γὰρ ἐς τραγῳδίαν παρεκίνουν καὶ ἰαμβεῖα ἐφθέγγοντο καὶ μέγα ἐβόων· μάλιστα δὲ τὴν Εὐριπίδου Ἀνδρομέδαν ἐμονῴδουν καὶ τὴν τοῦ Περσέως ῥῆσιν ἐν μέλει μέλει γ: μέρει β. διεξῄεσαν, καὶ μεστὴ ἦν ἡ πόλις ὠχρῶν ἁπάντων καὶ λεπτῶν τῶν ἑβδομαίων ἐκείνων τραγῳδῶν, σὺ δ’ ὦ θεῶν τύραννε κἀνθρώπων Ἔρως, Eur. Fragm. 136 N-2. καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ ἀναβοώντων καὶ τοῦτο ἐπὶ πολύ, ἄχρι δὴ χειμὼν καὶ κρύος δὲ μέγα γενόμενον ἔπαυσε ληροῦντας αὐτούς. αἰτίαν δέ μοι δοκεῖ τοῦ τοιούτου παρασχεῖν Ἀρχέλαος ὁ τραγῳδός, εὐδοκιμῶν τότε, μεσοῦντος θέρους…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg053.local002/#tlg0062-tlg053-local002-6"},{"label":"§ 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