True history / Lucian ; introduction, text, translation, and commentary by Diskin Clay and James H Brusuelas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucian, of Samosata, author.

Contributor:

Clay, Diskin, translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Brusuelas, James H., 1974- editor.

Macleod, M. D., editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Voyages, Imaginary--Fiction.

Voyages, Imaginary.

Lucian, of Samosata. Vera historia.

Lucian.

Vera historia (Lucian, of Samosata).

Genre:

Bilingual books.

Greek prose literature.

Greek prose literature -- Translations into English.

Satire, Greek.

Satire, Greek -- Translations into English.

Satirical literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 214 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Lucian

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Greek text with facing English translation; introduction and notes in English.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Lucian's True History

1.1. Introducing Lucian's True History

1.2. Lucian's life

1.3. Lucian's "I"

1.4. Lucian's afterlife

2. The anatomy of fiction

2.1. Lies and deception: a problem with fiction

2.2. The anatomy of a true fiction: history and myth/history or myth?

2.3. Fiction vindicated: the usefulness of lies

3. Mimesis

3.1. The familiar and the foreign: Lucian's creative backdrop

3.2. Attic and Atticism: language as status

3.3. Lucian at play: Lucian's Odyssey or stuck in literary la-la-land

3.3.1. The Moon

3.3.2. The Island of the Blest.

Notes:

"[When the manuscript was being prepared for publication by Oxford University Press] the translation was complete, and that remains entirely the work of Clay."--Preface by James H. Brusuelas.

"The Greek text ... presented here is that of M.D. Macleod in the Oxford Classical Texts series (Oxford 1972, vol. 1, libelli 13-14)"--page 53.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-52) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Lucian, of Samosata. Vera historia. English (Clay)

Container of: Lucian, of Samosata. Vera historia. Greek (Macleod)

ISBN:

9780198789642

0198789645

9780198789659

0198789653

OCLC:

1243306700

Publisher Number:

99989346244