The aim of this book is to make Plutarch's Dialogue on Love accessible to intermediate students of Greek. The running vocabulary and grammatical commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. The Dialogue on Love is a great intermediate Greek text. Its discussion of the merits and pitfalls of passion and desire is grounded in the philosophical tradition reaching back to Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, but Plutarch's treatment of these themes includes a novel celebration of marriage and the love of women, reinforced by the dramatic setting and background action to the dialogue. It is thus a great example of the imperial period of Greek literature, when figures like Plutarch engaged in a lively dialogue with their classical cultural heritage.

Plutarch's Dialogue on Love: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

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Hayes, Edgar Evan

Nimis, Stephen A.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Faenum Publishing, Ltd.

The aim of this book is to make Lucian’s The Ass accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. The Ass is a great intermediate Greek text. The narrative is fast-paced and funny, and the language is fairly simple and easy to follow. Unlike its better-known Latin relative, Apuleius’ Golden Ass, Lucian’s The Ass is an unpretentious satirical text that tells a funny story in a casual and light-hearted manner. There is little moralizing or didacticism in the story, and unlike the hero of Apuleius's version of the story, there is no religious or philosophical illumination at the end. The final episode is a funny twist of events completely in tune with the tenor of the rest of the novel. There is a hilarious love-making episode with lots of double-entendre, and other episodes that portray the doings of various low-life characters who are rarely present in ancient literature at all. Thieves, religious charlatans, witches, millers, servants, soldiers and bakers all find a place in this strange story of chance and magic.

Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

The aim of this book is to make Hippocrates’ On Airs, Waters and Places and the Hippocratic Oath accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. Hippocrates’ On Airs, Waters and Places is a great text for intermediate readers. The simple sentence structure makes it easy to read, while its subject matter, the impact of climate on disease and character, is interesting for a number of reasons. The presentation falls roughly into two halves, the first detailing various environmental factors that contribute to specific diseases, the second more ethnographic in its account of the differences between Asians and Europeans as a function of their environment and customs.

Hippocrates’ On Airs, Waters, and Places and The Hippocratic Oath: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

In On the Syrian Goddess (De Dea Syria), Lucian of Samosata presents an eyewitness account of the worship of Atargatis at the Sacred City of Hierapolis in Northern Syria. The subject of much scholarly debate over its authorship and authenticity, this text may be a lampoon of Eastern religion by one of antiquity’s great satirists. On the other hand, if it is authentic, it offers a rare glimpse into the little-understood world of ancient goddess worship. Describing a cult considered ancient and mysterious even in his own time, Lucian presents scenes of orgiastic luxury, gilded temples, bizarre divination, sacred animals, phallic worship, transvestite priests, violent self-castration, and many other oddities that are sure to fascinate any reader. This volume presents Lucian’s Greek text, as edited by A. M. Harmon, with a parallel English translation by Herbert Strong on facing pages. This format will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation while looking at the Greek version, or vice versa. Also included are a biography of Lucian by Strong, as well as a thorough introduction and extensive footnotes by John Garstang.

Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess: A Dual Language Edition

History

Strong, Herbert A

Ancient Civilizations

The aim of this book is to make three of the Roman physician Galen's shorter works (On my Own Books, On the Order of my Own Books, and That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher) accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and grammatical commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. Although Galen can be a little difficult at times, his language gets easier and more predictable with practice, and these three works are a great introduction to this fascinating figure. They are not strictly speaking medical works, but reflections on his own work and thought that throw extraordinary light on the relationship of the medical profession in antiquity to wider currents of thought in the brilliant period of Greek literature known as the "second sophistic."

Galen, Three Treatises: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Nimis, Stephen

The Global Citizen: Volume 2: Issue 1 (Full Color Edition) The Global Citizen is an independent student-run organization whose primary purpose is to provide one of the few venues in the world through which the world's young scholars can publish exemplary work pertaining to contentious issues in international affairs. This issue includes: LYSISTRATA LEGACIES: THE LIBERIAN SEX STRIKES AND THE PUSH FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH POST-IDENTITY BIO-POLITICS by Jessica Kamphuis (Huron University College, Western University) A NEW WAVE OF CHANGE: CHINA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Author identity concealed for protection) 1961 ANNEXATION OF GOA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW by Manasi Joshi (University of Toronto) CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN PORK RESTRICTIONS by Faisal Al-Amy (University of British Columbia) LA MARXIST PROVINCE by Benjamin Mintzberg (University of British Columbia)

The Global Citizen: Volume 2: Issue 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Citizen, Global

Politics & Government

The Global Citizen: Volume 2: Issue 1 (Black and White Student Edition) The Global Citizen is an independent student-run organization whose primary purpose is to provide one of the few venues in the world through which the world's young scholars can publish exemplary work pertaining to contentious issues in international affairs. This issue includes: LYSISTRATA LEGACIES: THE LIBERIAN SEX STRIKES AND THE PUSH FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH POST-IDENTITY BIO-POLITICS by Jessica Kamphuis (Huron University College, Western University) A NEW WAVE OF CHANGE: CHINA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Author identity concealed for protection) 1961 ANNEXATION OF GOA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW by Manasi Joshi (University of Toronto) CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN PORK RESTRICTIONS by Faisal Al-Amy (University of British Columbia) LA MARXIST PROVINCE by Benjamin Mintzberg (University of British Columbia)

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 characters: Nereids, dolphins, fountains, winds, and even the Sea herself weigh in on various events and present novel narrative perspectives on them.

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

Krause, Stephanie

The aim of this book is to make the story of "Cupid and Psyche" from Apuleius' The Golden Ass accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Latin. 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 Latin while enjoying one of the most delightful stories from antiquity. Apuleius' “Cupid and Psyche” is a great text for intermediate readers. Its plot resembles fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Cinderella,” but its literary texture is typical of the rest of the Golden Ass. With its narrative of betrayal and redemption and a harrowing descent into the underworld, the tale of Cupid and Psyche has been viewed as a parallel to the The Golden Ass as a whole, as well as an allegory for the redemption of the soul. But it has also been admired as a light-hearted fairy tale ending in marital bliss – a simple tale told to a frightened captive girl. Like many fairy tales, however, this one includes dark and disturbing elements that also parallel the dark conclusion to the captive girl's own tale in The Golden Ass.

Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche: An Intermediate Latin Reader: Latin Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Krumpak, Karen

The aim of this book is to make the Dialogues of the Dead by Lucian of Samosata (c. 120 CE –190) 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 Dead 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. Since the underworld is the place of final judgment, it is the perfect location to have various figures from history and legend meet and reflect on the choices they made in life. Wealthy men, famous kings, heroes of old, and the gods themselves are all subjected to Lucian’s satirical gaze, but always with a combination of learned wit and cleverness.

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

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Plutarch's Dialogue on Love: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Lucian's The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Hippocrates’ On Airs, Waters, and Places and The Hippocratic Oath: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess: A Dual Language Edition

Galen, Three Treatises: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

The Global Citizen: Volume 2: Issue 1

The Global Citizen: Volume 2: Issue 1

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

Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche: An Intermediate Latin Reader: Latin Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary

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