{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg064.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg064.local002","title":"Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, Προμηθεὺς εἴ εἶ ἐν λόγοις","titleGreek":"Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, Προμηθεὺς εἴ εἶ ἐν λόγοις","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/419/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, Προμηθεὺς εἴ εἶ ἐν λόγοις. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Lucian with an English Translation, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1959. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg064.local002","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, οὐδ’ 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 δὲ ἡ περιττὴ σοφία καὶ προμήθεια ἐν τοῖς γράμμασιν; ὡς ἔμοιγε ἱκανόν εἰ μὴ πάνυ σοι γήϊνα ἔδοξεν μηδὲ κομιδῇ ἄξια τοῦ Καυκάσου. καίτοι πόσῳ δικαιότερον ὑμεῖς ἂν εἰκάζοισθε τῷ Προμηθεῖ, ὁπόσοι ἐν δίκαις εὐδοκιμεῖτε ξὺν ἀληθείᾳ ποιούμενοι τοὺς ἀγῶνας. ζῶα 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 ἑνὶ μὴ N: μὲν γ: μὴ ἑνὶ Fritzsche. διαλλάττοιτε, ὅτι…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/7-7/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg064.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg064/local002.json.gz"}}