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

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Feb 16 14:01:48 EST 2011


FWIW:

Lucian is great fun, and the ALHQH DIHGHMATA is perhaps the ancestor of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. I
once used the section on the visit to Homer in Hades as a final exam at the end of a first-year Greek course.

Carl W. Conrad

On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Mark Lightman wrote:

> From  LoSo of the Greek Study List.
> 
> Mark L
> Φωσφορος
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> FWSFOROS MARKOS
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> 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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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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