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The dialogue begins with a young man named Tychiades asking his friend Philokles why most people are so fond of lies. After a brief discussion, Tychiades goes on to narrate an occasion when he went to visit an elderly friend named Eukrates hoping to meet his other friend Leontichos. At Eukrates's
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the other guests are suggesting to help Eukrates get better will not work, they all laugh at him. They then try to persuade him to believe in various superstitions by telling him stories, which grow increasingly ridiculous as the conversation goes on.
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house, he encounters a large group of guests who have recently gathered together due to Eukrates suddenly falling ill. When Tychiades remarks that the
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Index

Philopseudes
Greek
frame story
Syrian
Lucian of Samosata
Attic dialect
ancient Greek
satire
supernatural
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
folk remedies
A True Story
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.26
ISBN
978-0-19-983747-2
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9780674991446
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0-8122-1705-5
The Lover of Lies
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Lucian
Works by Lucian
Amores
On the Syrian Goddess
Dialogues of the Gods

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