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Valentina Orrù presents her master thesis:
Abstract: Humans have been picturing alternative worlds and dreaming of different realities for centuries.
Lucian of Samosata wrote A True Story about a journey to imaginary countries in the 2nd century CE; sixteen centuries later, Ludvig Holberg did the same and accepted the legacy by composing Niels Klim's Underground Travels. But how does an 18th century fantasy novel written in Latin preserve its Greek ancestor? This presentation aims to give a preliminary examination of the reception and the relationship between the two authors by focusing on some episodes, structures and sources of the two narratives.