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Lucian’s The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader: Greek Textual content with Vocabulary and Commentary
Take a look at the entertaining and assumed-provoking tale of Lucian’s The Ass with this intermediate Greek reader. This version functions the initial Greek textual content along with handy vocabulary and insightful commentary to assist in comprehension and knowledge. Fantastic for learners searching to enhance their Greek language techniques and delve into the environment of historical Greek literature. Get your arms on Lucian’s The Ass currently and unlock the miracles of classical Greek storytelling.
Markos –
there is no pain in this Ass
The story is simple and easy to follow. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets turned into a donkey and gets another girl. This story is told in simple Greek, with mostly short easy sentences, but with enough syntactical complexity to help people learn Greek better. Plus the format is suburb for learners. All but the most common words are glossed below the text, and below this are basic grammatical notes, usually accompanied with a literal translation which unpacks the Greek. More detailed discussions of grammatical points are introduced as they appear in the text. The font is large and there are some cool illustrations. There is a nice appendix with principle parts of all the verbs.My only criticism is that English summaries are printed before each Greek section. While these are helpful, in previous volumes of this series, these were printed beneath the text with the helps. Here they are hard to ignore and they sort of ruin the suspense (and the final joke) of the story.No pain, no gain? Well, learning Greek is hard, but a fun, user-friendly text like this reminds us why we learn Greek in the first place. Hayes/Nimis have taken the drudgery out of reading Greek texts. I, for one, would rather spend my time reading Greek than slogging through LSJ or Smyth. I look forward to the future volumes in this outstanding series.
Fernando Collor de Mellow –
Another winner from Nimis and Hayes
Great story, great text & layout, nice convenient glossary, wonderfully-helpful notes. If you liked True Story you’ll go crazy for this one.These readers have done more to improve my understanding of Greek than anything out there.Wish they’d do the anonymous life of Aesop.
Rob McConeghy –
very good beginning intermediate reader
not a great work of literature like Apuleius’s Golden Ass, but excellent for beginning Intermediate Greek students. The notes and vocabulary help enable you to read the text fairly easily without a lot of puzzling over complex passages. The basic story is interesting.
JH –
I’d like to sincerely thank the authors of the series of …
I’d like to sincerely thank the authors of the series of Greek texts by Lucian, of which I recently purchased the Dialogues of the Sea Gods, The Ass, and True Story. These texts are such a welcome treasure of comprehension, opening up the ideas and humor of the ancient world for more fluent and enjoyable reading. In addition, the inclusion of short grammatical reviews throughout the books is superb, especially the way the grammar is contextualized to passages from the reading. Also, the List of Verbs section at the end of the texts is yet another highly commendable feature, as I have imagined but never seen before the simplicity of grouping common verbs with different prefixes to easily contrast their meanings. For all of these things, thank you so much to the talented professors/students that put these books together; I look forward to ordering all the other titles.
Ashtree –
Who knew Greek could be this much fun?
I came to this after working through , and while I enjoyed that a LOT, I’m finding that this one is even more fun. I think the Greek is easier too (or maybe I’m just getting better at it).On every page you get all the vocabulary and grammatical help you need, and the pages also have occasional little info-boxs on more general grammar topics. Most of these will be stuff you already know, but that it’s good to revise from time to time.The story itself is quite something – I’m not too far into this one yet, but already I’ve had a couple of out-loud laughs and had my socks blown off by a sex scene that manages to be wildly funny and wildly erotic at the same time.Seriously, who knew Greek could be so much fun!Highly recommended, but for mature audiences only. Or rather, for IMmature readers who are old enough to enjoy this sort of stuff.Also extremely useful if time travel is ever invented and you find yourself chatting to a pretty girl 2000 years ago!
H. Mayer –
Was jemand, der irrtümlich zur falschen Zaubersalbe greift und sich dadurch in einen Esel verwandelt, alles erlebt, wird kurz und bündig geschildert. Als Unterhaltung gedacht, ist Lukians Satire zwar manchmal starker Tobak, weil sie zeigt, wie Menschen bisweilen mit Tieren und anderen Menschen umgehen, aber kulturgeschichtlich äuÃerst interessant. Die angegebenen Vokabeln und sprachlichen Erklärungen bewirken, dass man den altgriechischen Text – so man diese Sprache gelernt hat – einfach zügig und flüssig lesen kann. Nur mehr Sachkommentar hätte ich mir gewünscht.Alles in allem empfehlenswert! Warum dann nur vier Punkte? Wegen der Fehler und Druckfehler, vor allem im kommentierenden Teil. Aber so schlimm ist es auch nicht, dass es ein Hinderungsgrund beim Kauf sein sollte.
Ashtree –
I came to this after working through and while I enjoyed that a LOT, I’m finding that this one is even more fun. I think the Greek is easier too (or maybe I’m just getting better at it).On every page you get all the vocabulary and grammatical help you need, and the pages also have occasional little info-boxs on more general grammar topics. Most of these may be about stuff you already know, but still, it’s good to revise from time to time.The story itself is quite something – Before I’d read many pages I’d had a couple of out-loud laughs and had my socks blown off by a sex scene that manages to be wildly funny and wildly erotic at the same time, full of double-entenres (based on wrestling and warfare).From there on it’s one misadventure after another for the ‘hero’, many of which suggest that it wasn’t much fun to be a donkey in those days.Seriously, who knew Greek could be so much fun!Highly recommended, but for mature audiences only. Or rather, for immature readers who are old enough to enjoy this sort of Non-PC stuff (there’s actually one scene towards the end of the book that was a tad extreme for my taste).Also contains some lines that may be useful if time travel is ever invented and you find yourself 2000 years in the past, chatting up a pretty girl!I’ve read one review that was very critical of this book – I’ll add my thoughts on that as a ‘comment’ to this review. But personally, I recommend this – it’s certainly one of the few original texts that consistently grabbed my interest from start to finish!
Dr. B. E. Kelly –
This is a POD (Print On Demand) publication, a still relatively new approach to publishing which makes books of a more specialist nature available to a limited readership at a moderate rate. This is a very welcome development in Classics, particularly where students of Greek are not likely to have had the same background as in Latin, and where more assistance will be needed in tackling original texts. The format of this book, with its clear, good sized printing, generous glossing and helpful grammatical notes, is very helpful, and the text is rounded off with passages from Metamorphoses for comparison with the more famous Latin version, a detailed list of irregular verbs, and a fairly full glossary. The authors/editors are to be warmly commended on this great aid to students (and teachers). Maybe they could do something of a similar nature with Xenophon or Herodotus?