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Lucian, The Sky-Man, 15

nan I had no sooner flapped the wing than a flood of light enveloped me, and things that before I had not even been aware of became perfectly clear. I turned my eyes down earthwards, and with ease discerned cities, men, and all that was going on, not merely in the open, but in the fancied security of houses. There was Ptolemy in his sister’s arms, the son of Lysimachus plotting against his father, Seleucus’s son Antiochus making signs to his step mother Stratonice, Alexander of Pherae being murdered by his wife, Antigonus corrupting his daughter inlaw, the son of Attalus putting the poison in his cup; Arsaces was in the act of slaying his mistress, while the eunuch Arbaces drew his sword upon him; the guards were dragging Spatinus the Mede out from the banquet by the foot, with the lump on his brow from the golden cup. Similar sights were to be seen in the palaces of Libya and Scythia and Thrace — adulteries, murders, treasons, robberies, perjuries, suspicions, and monstrous betrayals.

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eco,travels in hyperreality	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,and icaromenippus	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,book division	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,lunar mirror,encyclopaedic mirror	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,lunar mirror,mirrors and mimesis'	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,lunar mirror	Mheallaigh (2014) 222
true stories,plato's allegory of the cave"	Mheallaigh (2014) 222