Classical Greek

Zeuxis, or Antiochus · Ζεῦξις ἢ Ἀντίοχος

Lucian

Translated by Kenneth Kilburn

Lucian fears his audience admires only the novelty of his work, like the crowd before Zeuxis’ painting of a centaur family.

• Greek: ed. Kenneth Kilburn, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg057, CC BY-SA 4.0).
• English: Kenneth Kilburn, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0062.tlg057.perseus-eng3). Notes are not included.
• Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.