| Sumario: | [eng] Lucian, in several works, criticizes contemporary society, power, culture, religion, literature, vices and human habits more ingrained, through the otherness that represents the death and the underworld. Lucian is an author skilled in developing complex and often surprising narrative frameworks in which the contents of his works always acquire a renewed attention. In Menippus or necromancy Lucian tells the particular katábasis that the cynic Menippus undertakes to discover the true wisdom and to know the best kind of human life. However, the narration takes place on the earth, so the philosopher, without dying, becomes an authentic apparition to the still alive men by the message that he announces and that he brings with him from the world of the dead. The aim of this paper is to analyze some formal resources and topics that Lucian uses to achieve his goal by parody; and it is simply to exalt the common sense and the convenience of humour as universal pattern of behaviour for an authentic life.
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