Études des fleuves d'Asie Mineure dans l'antiquité. Tome 1. Collections – Expositions Lucian also mischievously revisits traditional

Lucian also mischievously revisits traditional mythology

engages in a veritable literary exercise in the Dionysiacae based on the stereotypes and procedures traditionally used in Greek novels of the imperial period

With their abundance of gold

especially wheat

The Louvre Museum's Greek art collections

Études des fleuves d'Asie Mineure dans l'antiquité. Tome 1. Collections – Expositions Lucian also mischievously revisits traditionalThe divine Scamander, the meandering Meander, the gold bearing Pactolus, the swirling Xanthos, the beautiful Caique, the great Sangarios or the Halys, the dividing line between Lower and Upper Asia Asia Minor includes many rivers and important waterways. Several of them interested ancient authors. Some have thus become famous and have entered the collective memory, associated with the image of this geographical area. Yet few works exist on the rivers