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As is well known, Lucian’s masterpiece  Verae Historiae  can be read as a travesty of Homer’s  Odyssey . The present paper argues that with his fantastic voyage Lucian reacts not just to the  Odyssey  itself but also to the recent interpretation of the  Odyssey  by the Middle Platonic and Neopythagorean philosopher Numenios of Apameia. Lucian’s purpose, therefore, in writing the  Verae Historiae  was presumably to give back to Odysseus some of the resilience that interpretations like that of Numenios had taken away from him, and in general to set mythological poetry free once again from the constraints the philosophers had laid on it.

Die zweite Reise des Odysseus in Lukians Verae Historiae