The Talmud’s Genre among Imperial Period/Late Antique Genres

Abstract

Science and Philosophy, Greek Culture in the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 205, notes that Lucian's "work is … most complex, engaging with the entire preceding selenographical tradition in surprising and sophisticated ways, as well as with complex literary-critical matters in his own society." Through his engagement with previous narrators of trips to the moon (e.g., Varro, Antonius Diogenes), Lucian remains plausible.