The MouseionLucian of SamosataDialogues of the Dead
Dialogues of the DeadΝεκρικοὶ Διάλογοι
By Lucian of Samosata. Dialogi mortuorum · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- Dialogue
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 2nd c. AD
- Length
- 13,221 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. 1. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1909.
- Greek textLucian, Vol. 7. Macleod, Matthew Donald, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961 (unrenewed copyright).
- English translationLucian, Vol. 7. Macleod, Matthew Donald, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961 (unrenewed copyright).
- English translationThe Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.