Lucian’s The Double Indictment

The aim of this book is to make the Double Indictment of Lucian of Samosata accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and grammatical commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to understand each page, so that readers can progress through the text, improving their knowledge of Greek while enjoying one of the most entertaining authors of antiquity.

The Double Indictment is a great book for intermediate readers of Greek. Lucian is an author of the imperial period of Greek literature, and his Greek is typical of the so-called "second sophistic," a period of intense cultivation of classical Greek literature and culture. He is thus representative of a range of figures from all over the Roman world who adopted the Greek style of the classical period to produce a range of innovative literature. His language is entirely classical in grammar and vocabulary, and his humorous engagement with the classical tradition brings to bear the whole range of classical literature.