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

Van Pelt Library PA4231.A5 C53 2021
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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

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