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"Trips to the Moon" is another hundred years satire by Lucian of Samosata. He ridicules the tendencies of Greek historians to enlarge the explorations of these fellow citizens. He condemns these routines in the first part: "Instructions for Writing History". The next area of the work is "The True History", which depicts a vacation to the moon as a mockery to his magnifying contemporaries. The audiobook ends with "Icaro-Menippus: A Dialogue".
Excerpt from the first part: "Another famous article writer has given a merchant account of everything that passed, from starting to end, in Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia, after the Tigris, and in Multimedia, and all in less than five hundred lines; and when he previously done this, tells us, he has written a history. The title, which is nearly so long as the work, works thus: 'A narrative of everything done by the Romans in Armenia, Multimedia, and Mesopotamia, by Antiochianus, who gained a reward in the sacred video games of Apollo.'
I assume, when he was a youngster, he previously conquered in a running match." Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-c. 180) was a rhetorician and satirist who composed in Greek. He is mentioned for his witty and scoffing aspect.
