The MouseionLucian of SamosataHow to Write History
How to Write HistoryΠῶς δεῖ Ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν
By Lucian of Samosata. Quomodo historia conscribenda sit · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- History
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 2nd c. AD
- Length
- 8,712 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 72% common words
- In the library
- 2 Greek texts, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textLucian. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 2. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.
- Greek textLucian, Vol. 6. Kilburn, Kenneth, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959 (unrenewed copyright).
- English translationLucian, Vol. 6. Kilburn, Kenneth, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959 (unrenewed copyright).
- English translationThe Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.