Lucian, True History : Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary.

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Lucian True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Copyright
Preface
Contents
Introduction
	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
Reader’s Guide
	(1) Abbreviations, etc.
	(2) Greek Measurements
	(3) Select Bibliography
A Note on the Text
Text Of True History: with translation by Diskin Clay
	Book 1
		Introduction: Lucian’s Apology
		How Our Intrepid Author And His Companions Sailed Out Into The Unknown Atlantic Seeking What Lies Beyond The Ocean
		Our Author Relates His Adventures On Vineland Or The Island Of The Vine-maidens
		A Still More Incredible Adventure: Our Author, His Companions And Ship Are Carried Up To The Moon
		Lucian And His Companions Land On The Moon And Are Brought Before King Endymion
		Star Wars: The Great Battle Of The Moon And Sun
		The Peace Treaty Imposed On The Selenitai By The Victorious Heliotai
		The Selenitai Described
		Our Author And His Companions Leave The Moon And Descend Back Down Onto The Sea
		The Author Describes How His Return To Earth And The Sea Was No Salvation But A Catastrophe In The Belly Of The Whale
		The Great Battle In The Belly Of The Whale Described
		The Sea Battle Of The Giants
	Book 2
		The Author Relates How He And His Companions Managed To Escape From The Belly Of The Whale
		How Lucian And His Companions Are Frozen Fast In A Great Sea Of Ice
		On Past The Island Of Cork
		The Author And His Company Come To The Island Of The Blest
		Hell Island
		The City Of Dreams
		On Calypso’s Island
		Further Adventures At Sea
		An Adventure Among The Bull-heads
		Our Author Encounters New And Wonderous Forms Of Seafaring, As Well As A Few More Odyssean Adventures
		The Return To Earth And The Antipodal World
Commentary
	Book 1
		The Episodes of True History Book 1
		1.1–4 The opening
		1.5–9 The voyage to the Western Island
		1.9–12 Lucian arrives on the Moon and describes Endymion’s preparations for war with the Sun and its king, Phaethon
		1.13–17 The defeat of the Selenitai in the war between Endymion and Phaethon
		1.18–20 The capture of Lucian and his crew and a treaty of peace
		1.21–6 The Selenitai described
		1.28–9 Descent down to the Ocean, arrival at the island of Lychnopolis, and the trip past Cloudcuckooland
		1.30–42 In the belly of the whale (continued in VH 2.1–2)
	Book 2
		The Episodes of True History Book 2
		2.1–2 Escape from the belly of the whale
		2.3 The sacred island of Galatea
		2.4 The men with feet of cork on the island of Phello
		2.4–19 Arrival at the Island of the Blest and the banquet on the Elysian Fields
		2.20 The interview with Homer
		2.21 Pythagoras of Samos
		2.22 The games of the dead
		2.23–4 The impious escape and attack the Island of the Blest
		2.25–7 The flight of Helen revisted
		2.27–8 The decree of exile against Lucian and his companions
		2.30–2 The Island of the Impious
		2.32–5 The Island of Dreams
		2.35–6 The island of Ogygia
		2.37–9 The assaults on Lucian and his crew
		2.40 A halcyon day
		2.41–6 New marvels
		2.47 An account of further adventures promised
Index