[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.
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> Mark L
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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)
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> Hello all,
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> 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.
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> http://www.amazon.com/Lucians-True-Story-Intermediate-Vocabulary/dp/0983222800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297860689&sr=8-1
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> 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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History
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> http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/index.htm
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> On another note, does anyone know of a list of Graded Readers?
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> Louis Sorenson
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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