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 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:life-of-demonax|Life of Demonax]]  - A biography of the philosopher Demonax. It is not known whether he really existed or whether he is Lucian's creation.
-[[home:texts_and_library:essays:demosthenes|Demosthenes]]  - Praise of the orator Demosthenes.
 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:dionysius|Dionysus, an Introductory Lecture]]  - A short essay about the god Dionysus and his journey to India.
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 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:illiterate-book-fancier|Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier]]  - A diatribe against a Syrian book-collector.
-[[home:texts_and_library:essays:saturnalia|Saturnalia]]  - A description of the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:slander|Slander, a Warning]]  - An essay against believing slander too readily. Lucian's description of a painting by Apelles in this work influenced many later artists, including Botticelli.
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 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:swans-and-amber|Swans and Amber]]  - The author visits the River Eridanos and is disappointed to find it has neither swans nor amber (as in the myth of Phaeton).
-[[home:texts_and_library:essays:-the-death-of-peregrine|The Death of Peregrine]]  - An account of the death of the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus who committed suicide by cremating himself on a funeral pyre at the Olympic Games in 165 AD.
+[[home:texts_and_library:essays:peregrine|The Death of Peregrine]]  - An account of the death of the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus who committed suicide by cremating himself on a funeral pyre at the Olympic Games in 165 AD.
 [[home:texts_and_library:essays:the-dependent-scholar|The Dependent Scholar]]  - A Hogarthian sketch of the life led by educated Greeks who attached themselves to the households of great Roman lords - and ladies.