This month’s Book Club selection is from Lucian, whose satirical dialogues poked fun at philosophers and mythological characters. CHS Kosmos Society members will be reading The Dialogues of the Dead; here is a selection of translations available free online:
Translation by H.W. & F.G. Fowler:
https://www.theoi.com/Text/LucianDialoguesDead1.html or
https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl1/wl146.htm
Translation by William Tooke: Dialogues of the Dead starts at (printed) page 191
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222505
Translation by Howard Williams: Dialogues of the Dead starts at (printed) page 86
https://archive.org/details/dialoguesnamely01lucigoog
Further works by Lucian:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/fowl/index.htm
For those who want to look at the original, the Greek text is available on Perseus:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2008.01.0524
Dialogue 13 is available in Greek with translation notes by William S. Annis:
https://scholiastae.org/docs/el/lucian-d-dead-13.pdf
The discussion will start and continue in the Kosmos Society Forum, and community members will meet via Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, February 27, at 11 a.m. EST.
Happy readings!
