Lucian's Dialogues of the Sea Gods: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

by Lucian of Samosata, Stephanie Krause, Edgar Evan Hayes

The aim of this book is to make Lucian’s Dialogues of the Sea Gods accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and grammatical commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page so that readers can progress through the text, improving their knowledge of Greek while enjoying one of the most entertaining authors of antiquity. Lucian’s Dialogues of the Sea Gods is a great text for intermediate readers. The dialogues are breezy and fun to read with relatively simple sentence structure. Typical for Lucian, classical literature is the source for most of the material, with amusing takes on traditional stories and scenarios. Sea deities tend to be rather minor characters in Greek myths, and in these texts we see Lucian recasting some famous incidents by centralizing the point of view of such minor Nereids, dolphins, fountains, winds, and even the Sea herself weigh in on various events and present novel narrative perspectives on them.

Genres: Mythology, Classics

120 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2014

About the author

Lucian of Samosata was a Greek-educated Syrian rhetorician, and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.

Reviews

[William Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another in a well wrought series of Lucian’s dialogues. Nimis and Evans do Greek readers a great favor with their editions and commentaries. Lucian is funny and his use of myth is interesting and informative.

[Ⰰⱃⰿⰰⱀⰴ Ⱆⰾⰴⰵⱃⰻⰽⱁ Ⱅⰵⱄⰾⰰ · Rating 3 out of 5]

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