Lucian's a true story

Lucian's a true story
Author: Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher: Edgar Evan Hayes
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0983222800

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. Revised August, 2014.

The Syrian Goddess

The Syrian Goddess
Author: John Garstang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781496085399

THE dawn of history in all parts of Western Asia discloses the established worship of a nature-goddess in whom the productive powers of the earth were personified. She is our Mother Earth, known otherwise as the Mother Goddess or Great Mother.

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
Author: Daniel S. Richter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199837473

The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g., gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the classical traditions and early Christianity).

A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Author: Ted Kaizer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444339826

Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the classical Near East with the typical undergraduate teaching syllabus in the Anglo-Saxon world. All contributors in this edited volume are leading scholars in their field, with a combination of established researchers and academics, and emerging voices. Contributors hail from countries across several continents, and work in various disciplines, including Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Oriental Studies. In addition to furthering the integration of the Levantine lands in the classical periods into the teaching canon, the book offers readers: The first comprehensively structured Companion and edited handbook on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Extensive regional and sub-regional variety in the cross-disciplinary source material A way to compensate for the recent destruction of monuments in the region and the new generation of researchers’ inability to examine these historical stages in person An integration of the study of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East with traditional undergraduate teaching syllabi in the Anglo-Saxon world Perfect for undergraduate history and classics students studying the Near East, A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students and scholars working within Near Eastern studies, as well as interested members of the public with a passion for history.

Selected Satires of Lucian

Selected Satires of Lucian
Author: Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1968
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393004434

A collection of writings by the 2nd century satirist who ridiculed tyrants, philosophers, and even the gods, in his mock dialogues and prose narratives.

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2013-07-25
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1107012058

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

Lucian's True History: A Novel Written in the Second Century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking Author of Assyrian Descent, and a Sat

Lucian's True History: A Novel Written in the Second Century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking Author of Assyrian Descent, and a Sat
Author: Lucian Of Samosata
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9782491251697

A True History is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking author of Assyrian descent. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.

Lucian's Dialogues

Lucian's Dialogues
Author: Lucian
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781018382647

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Syrian Goddess

The Syrian Goddess
Author: Lucian
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2021-12-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 3985940592

The Syrian Goddess Lucian - On the Syrian Goddess is a Greek treatise of the second century AD which describes religious cults practiced at the temple of Hierapolis Bambyce, now Manbij, in Syria. The work is written in a Herodotean-style of Ionic Greek, and has been traditionally ascribed to the Greek essayist Lucian of Samosata.