Lucian's "On the Syrian Goddess"; An Intermediate Greek Reader

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Dear Greek learners,

Recently I stumbled into an Intermediate Greek Reader in the public domain. It leads you through Lucian’s work “On the Syrian Goddess” (De Dea Syria) and it explains the grammar and the syntax as you walk through the text.
I thought some of you here might appreciate it.
Here’s a link to download the PDF: https://mega.nz/file/Ey4TFajD#vaB1YZe8TtaJTttq6aOYKKcjlUjZeXdeVxlnCL_J6Wo

Happy reading and learning.

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Not Lucius, Bram, Lucian.

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It’s not public domain that I know of, though it is freely downloadable from its publisher, along with a few other intermediate readers.

http://www.faenumpublishing.com/lucians-on-the-syrian-goddess.html

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The authors have made a version of this work available (via email) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. The terms of the license can be accessed at creativecommons.org.
Accordingly, you are free to copy, alter and distribute this work under the following conditions:

  1. You must attribute the work to the author (but not in a way that suggests that the author endorses your alterations to the work).
  2. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
  3. If you alter, transform or build up this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license as this one.

I’m sure there are interesting and highly detailed legal differences between the above and “in the public domain” but I don’t think it matters much.

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I’ve used this edition with intermediate students. It’s generally serviceable, but beware of several mistakes, especially in the running vocabulary. Students may also want to read a better introduction to Ionic Greek, such as the one in the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek or Barbour’s Selections from Herodotus.

Later on, you could look at Jane Lightfoot’s tremendous commentary, essential reading for anyone working on pseudo-Ionic texts.

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Hey Phalakros, do you have Lightfoot’s edition?
I’ve been looking for it everywhere, but no luck so far (Amazon offers a 2nd hand for $280 (which is too much for me) and my library doesn’t carry it).

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My library has it. You can private message me if you need a scan of a smallish section. Based on your other posts, I imagine you’re primarily interested in the Deucalion passage.

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I just emailed pg. 335-351, the Deucalion section, over. Not that I was trying to steal Phalakros’ good deed, but his message just hadn’t popped up in my feed yet.

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I saw, thanks!