Lucian, True History - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Reader's Guide


• Text and Translation


• Commentary


• Index

About the author

The late Diskin Clay was R. J. R. Nabisco Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.

James H. Brusuelas is Associate Professor of Research in Classics and Computer Science and Digital Humanities Manager at EduceLab at the University of Kentucky.

Summary

This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.

Additional text

This is an accessible and very useful edition of Lucian's True History which should, one hopes, result in Lucian's more widespread appearance in the syllabus of intermediate and advanced Greek classes

Product details

• Authors: Diskin Clay, Diskin (Former R. J. R. Nabisco Distinguishe Clay, Diskin (Former R. J. R. Nabisco Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies Clay, Clay Diskin
• Assisted by: James H. Brusuelas (Editor), James H. (University of Kentucky) Brusuelas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780198789659
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878965-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts