[B-Greek] Fw: Lucian: A True Story (Graded Reader)

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 16 09:37:55 EST 2011


>From  LoSo of the Greek Study List.

 Mark L
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From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
To: greekstudy at nxport.com; Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 6:02:14 AM
Subject: Lucian: A True Story (Graded Reader)

 Hello all,

I just got a link from Geoffrey Steadman about a book that came out in January.  
Lucian's A True Story: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running 
Vocabulary and Commentary. It's self-published and available in paperback from 
Amazon for $14.  Lucian would be a really fun read. Lucian wrote this sci fi 
book in Attic. 




http://www.amazon.com/Lucians-True-Story-Intermediate-Vocabulary/dp/0983222800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297860689&sr=8-1



Product Description
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. 

About the Author
Evan Hayes is a student of Classics at Miami University.  Stephen Nimis is a 
Professor of Classics at Miami University. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/index.htm


On another note, does anyone know of a list of Graded Readers? 

Louis Sorenson


      


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