Icaromenippus
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"Three thousand stadia from the earth to the moon. . . . Marvel not, my comrade, if I appear talking to you on super-terrestrial and aerial topics. The long and the short of the matter is that I am running over the order of a Journey I have lately made."—Lucian's Icaromenippus --epigraph to The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells |
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Ἰκαρομένιππος ἢ Ὑπερνέφελος (Icaromenippus or The Sky-man) is a story by Lucian.
Imitating Icarus, Menippus makes himself a pair of wings and flies up to the gods where he learns that Zeus has decided to destroy all philosophers as useless.
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