Lucian's A True Story: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Nimis, Stephen; Hayes, Edgar Evan

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ISBN 10: 0983222800 ISBN 13: 9780983222804

Casa editrice: Stephen Nimis, 2011

The aim of this book is to make Lucian's A True Story accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. Lucian's A True Story is a great text for intermediate readers. Its breathless narrative does not involve many complex sentences or constructions; there is some unusual vocabulary and a few departures from Attic Greek, but for the most part it is a straightforward narrative that is fun and interesting by one of antiquity's cleverest authors. In A True Story, Lucian parodies accounts of fanciful adventures and travel to incredible places by authors such as Ctesias and Iambulus. The story's combination of mockery and learning makes it an excellent example of the Greek literature of the imperial period. Revised August, 2014.

L'autore:

Evan Hayes is a graduate of Miami University. Stephen Nimis is a Professor of Classics at Miami University.