{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg064.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg064.local001","title":"Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα Προμηθεὺς εἶ ἐν λόγοις","titleGreek":"Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα Προμηθεὺς εἶ ἐν λόγοις","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Karl Jacobitz"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Luciani Samosatensis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1909","volume":"1","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":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaexrecogniti01luciuoft/page/8/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα Προμηθεὺς εἶ ἐν λόγοις. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Leipzig, Teubner, 1909. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg064.local001","excerpt":"οὐκοῦν Προμηθέα με εἶναι φής; εἰ μὲν κατὰ τοῦτο, ὦ ἄριστε, ὡς πηλίνων κἀμοὶ τῶν ἔργων ὄντων, γνωρίζω τὴν εἰκόνα καί φημι ὅμοιος εἶναι αὐτῷ, οὐδʼ ἀναίνομαι πηλοπλάθος ἀκούειν, εἰ καὶ φαυλότερος ἐμοὶ ὁ πηλὸς οἷος ἐκ τριόδου, βόρβορός τις παρὰ μικρόν· εἰ δὲ ὑπερεπαινῶν τοὺς λόγους ὡς δῆθεν εὐμηχάνους ὄντας τὸν σοφώτατον τῶν Τιτάνων ἐπιφημίζεις αὐτοῖς, ὅρα μή τις εἰρωνείαν φῇ καὶ μυκτῆρα οἷον τὸν Ἀττικὸν προσεῖναι τῷ ἐπαίνῳ. ἢ πόθεν γὰρ εὐμήχανον τοὐμόν; τίς δʼ ἡ περιττὴ σοφία καὶ προμήθεια ἐν τοῖς γράμμασιν; ὡς ἔμοιγε ἱκανόν, εἰ μὴ πάνυ σοι γήϊνα ἔδοξε μηδὲ κομιδῇ ἄξια τοῦ Καυκάσου. καίτοι πόσῳ δικαιότερον ὑμεῖς ἂν εἰκάζοισθε τῷ Προμηθεῖ, ὁπόσοι ἐν δίκαις εὐδοκιμεῖτε ξὺν ἀληθείᾳ ποιούμενοι τοὺς ἀγῶνας; ζῶντα γοῦν ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ἔμψυχα ὑμῖν τὰ ἔργα, καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ θερμὸν αὐτῶν ἐστι διάπυρον· καὶ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ Προμηθέως ἂν εἴη, πλὴν εἰ μὴ διαλλάττοιτε, ὅτι μὴ ἐκ πηλοῦ πλάττετε, ἀλλὰ χρυσᾶ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/7-7/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg064/local001.json.gz"}}